Beginning

“Love yourself.”
Easy advice?
An infant does.
How natural, how right.
“Love yourself as you are.”
Damaged goods.
Ugly surface.
Gruesome inside.
“If you don’t love yourself fat
you won’t love yourself thin.”
How about pride? Will haughty do?
“Love yourself.”
Others love me. Others hold me high.
“Love yourself.”
I love what I’ve done, what I’ve given, what I am.
“Love yourself as you are.”
The Master said to
become as a little child.
I love myself.
Lord, let it be true.
I am young.
I am new.
I can learn.