a year full of life

if loving yourself is a chore

walk with all the grace
of a flying angel,
breath with the might
of a dying star,
cry with all the remorse
of a weeping willow,
love with all the love
of your beating heart.

people say in order to be loved
you have to love yourself first,
and that is simply not true,
you don't have to be
the biggest and best self
you've ever been,
in order to be loved -
you don't even have to have reached
your smallest of dreams,
to be loved.

the mistake in saying
loving yourself
is the key to being loved
is that not everyone
was taught how to love,
not everyone was fed
a spoonful of happiness
every morning
since they could remember,
and sometimes it takes,
a little showering of love,
to show you are, in fact,
worth being loved ten times over -
even if loving yourself is a chore.