This collection of three poems is inspired by learning to love yourself – your physical and nonphysical self. It’s a journey that I am still on. I challenged myself by writing about this topic, writing about something that scares me to think about, but I challenge all of you, the readers, to read these poems know that they are for you because you are love and you are beauty.
Learning Self-Love is like Driving a Car
First,
you have to get over the
fear of it. You have to believe that
it won’t be that hard.
–
Then,
you practice. You
look in the mirror, fasten your seatbelt, and
practice.
Like parallel parking, it’s impossible
at first.
–
But,
you will need support, someone who
knows what they’re doing
in your passenger seat.
–
After
you have the practice, you
take the test.
If you pass, you may still slip up;
that’s okay–fix it and move on.
If you fail, you practice some more and
do it again.
–
No one is perfect, but that’s the joy of it.
You see your flaws and believe that
you are more than them.
Me and Myself in Couplets
After 21 years,
I often still think
–
Who am I?
Who do I want to be?
–
I want to be love and
I want to be beauty.
–
I am learning that
I contain both of those things.
–
I am the love.
I am the beauty.
–
I just have to find them and
show them to the rest of the world.
Ethereal
I am earthly,
but my worth? my power? my energy?–
is of another world.
–
I have the power
to move mountains,
to empty seas,
to blow over forests.
–
My body may be earthly,
but my worth, my power, my energy
is ethereal.