Love Yourself (poem)
Love Yourself
A thought has been in my awareness
and it is all about self love
This thought
might turn out to be....
a pretty serious one.....
Do you love yourself?
I mean
Really love yourself?
It seems all day we can put thoughts into our head that make us think we do
Spreading pleasant quotes
Through this and that
That share words
And encourage us to
It’s great and all....
But I’ve wondered for a while
If words float around themselves
Or if the work is being done
One to one....
Do you really love yourself??
I think it’s a life long journey
We are complex creatures with minds that get tangled up in the tiniest things
Continuously bombarded
with should have
could have
would haves
Too short...
Too fat...
Too thin...
Too big...
Too small...
Too sensitive...
Too much of all the things
That reveals in time
A dark empty shelf
So
Tell me sweet heart
Do you really love yourself?
It’s tricky sometimes
We clutch so hard
to make it all come true
Love seems a sliding scale
Sometimes we love so easily
And other times....
We don’t want to
And when we are aware
And can lay it bare
That love don’t always come easy
we push through the door
To find shards on the floor
Chaos can make us uneasy
The shards are things we aren’t proud of
That need a bit of holding
A little compassion and empathy
Instead of dark
foreboding
Those fragmented scraps
Of “not good enough”
Need all the sweetest attentions
To know that they belong
when they have done wrong
Cause
It was never their intention
So You toil and build
Piece by piece a most
Colourful work of art
A mosaic made out of the scraps that were....
At one time torn apart
We see all of the
callousness
Understand all the wrong
Lees by lees
Sliver by sliver
Knowing all along
That
It’s a slow pour to fill that cup
Patience is key
So don’t give up
Make it your life’s gentle work
As
gentle rolling swells
on the sea
So Sweetly and with intention
We can slowly close the gap
There will be good days
And bad
But I know that you can
Really learn
Really truly learn
Learn To love yourself
I’m learning everyday
I hope you are too