I Who Love Myself

Loving myself, I can love you.
When I don't love me, I can't love you.
I can serve you, worship you, disdain you,
analyze you, lionize you, celebrate you,
envy you, fear you, resent you, covet you,
depend on you, adhere to you, swear by you,
swear at you, loathe you, recoil from you,
avoid you, disdain you, live for you...
But to love you, I must love me first.





With credit for the picture to Adam Christensen who posted it and Terri Elders whose shared version I saw (months ago).