As You Love Yourself

What do you feel about you?
contempt, disgust,
abominate,
down on, grossed out?
Despise, detest, loathe, scorn,
Hate? Does not that describe
powerless over addiction,
having unmanageable lives?
Did any of us enter the rooms
of recovery with a single
affirmative affirmation we could
say into a mirror?
Do we make the mistake
of "loving" others as we love
ourselves?