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everythingandnothing submitted a contest entry to Why do you love yourself? 7 months, 1 weeks ago
Can I answer this question?
Can I answer this question?
The problem with loving yourself,
The problem with me writing this poem,
The problem with you reading this,
Is that I don’t love myself.
I don’t adore myself.
One could incorporate a word
unbeknownst to love
about myself.
Similar to loathing.
Yet,
Here I am.
Writing this.
I think it’s because
I’m learning,
I am not giving up.
One day,
My body will learn the word.
My body will feel the kindness,
Towards its own interior.
My body will know love!
Right now,
I don’t have that capability.
But I’m trying.
I look to the little things I do,
I look at the way I cook.
The way I set my plate for dinner,
Alone.
In my house,
but choosing to nourish,
my helpful body.
My,
dare I say,
Beautiful self?
Right now,
I don’t adore many things,
If they correlate with me.
But…
Right now,
I stare at my skin,
I stare at the way
my hands gently scrub
soap upon my skin.
Not pinching my abdomen.
Not covering the scars.
I just watch,
As the foam spreads over
My soft, gentle covering.
I can’t answer this question.
Maybe I shouldn’t even be writing this.
Maybe it’s silly.
But I usually am kind of silly.
With how I can’t walk in a straight line,
when I’ve never had a drink.
With how I go to the movies with a notebook,
so I don’t forget a line.
Or how
If I laugh too hard
I start crying,
and then I start crying
Because I’m able to laugh.
Silly little me.
Well I guess this was a waste of paper,
I never got to answer your question.
Maybe I’ll learn the answer
One day.
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Frankie, it sounds like you have so many reasons to love yourself. Keep fighting to see that and lean into that love. Lean into all the little things and big thinks that make you you. You are kind. You are wonderful, a quite frankly I am slightly jealous of anyone who can cook without burning themselves 100 times over. jk. But i do wish i could cook a little better and not get hurt. In all seriousness, keep fighting to love yourself. Keep believing you deserve to be loved. And now that you have magic inside of you. Thank you for sharing and thank you for being part of our family. Sending you a big hug. <3 Lauren
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I am so happy I found this space! Cooking is a task and an art for sure haha! Thank you for reading and your kind words!
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Frankie, it sounds like you have so many reasons to love yourself. Keep fighting to see that and lean into that love. Lean into all the little things and big things that make you you. You are kind. You are wonderful, a quite frankly I am slightly jealous of anyone who can cook without burning themselves 100 times over. jk. But I do wish I could cook a little better and not get hurt. In all seriousness, keep fighting to love yourself. Keep believing you deserve to be loved. And now that you have magic inside of you. Thank you for sharing and thank you for being part of our family. Sending you a big hug. <3 Lauren
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