“To the girl I used to be I appreciate you for a seed won’t bloom without its soil.”

Now if only at my worst had I known I was about to be at my best.

And darling, you’re safe here where these walls only want to watch you grow.

Your love is sirens loud and coming to save me.

That night I fought and I fought but your hold was stronger yet I knew even your hands could not hurt me more than your love has.

Your love is not just a feeling but a knowing.

And so she left, whereas then, she realized that just because she was planted here, does not mean here is where she has to grow.

Darling remember we are all the same with different coverings.

They wished you a home full of hurt but you deserve a home full of healing.

She pulled the thorn from her side and turned it into a rose.

Though I sleep with nightmares of the one who hurt me I wake up with the one who heals me.

In the morning she’s my sunshine and at night she’s my star.

I love to watch you become everything she said you couldn’t be.

You ground me as my roots grow I spread like wildflowers all over you.

I’m a prisoner with no charge a sack of bones in varnished flesh walking around hoping somebody will root me.

Our pollen you thought infected us fed our bees and kept us growing.

And even in my waking hours, I still dream of you.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Bitcoin has been performing ~230% a year for a decade.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

If you grow, everything grows for you.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.