ashley

haleyannroach:

she shines with everything that is good

she looks pretty

even with no makeup on

she drives with the music on too loud

and she dreams like a girl

who forgot to grow up

she has a heart that

breaks in two for a world that can be so harsh

and it spills out love and grace

for everyone she knows

sometimes it costs so much

to have a heart that splits in two

sometimes it can feel too heavy

even for the chest it was made to live in

but the universe rejoices

in girls like her

girls that love and love

because they add to the beauty

God is the artist

but she is painting right beside him

you can see that he is in her

if you watch the way her eyes light up

when she talks about the things she believes in

or if you notice how they fill with tears

for burdens that aren’t even her own

you might think that someone who glows like her

has always been handed exactly what she has deserved

but she has known her own pain

and fought her own wars

she’s been robbed of things

that every little princess should have

she could have turned cold

and she could have been cruel

but she looked at a world

that had not always been kind

and she whispered

“someone must have hurt you too”

so she decided to become brave

and she stayed very kind

and she loved every soul

that she ever did meet

and she helped us all see

that the real way to win

is not to fight back

but to love and love and love

and love and love

and love

and what a gift it is to know that

love