"Inner Child"
by Rita Loyd © 2000
Afraid as a child.
Still I am
afraid.
On edge as a child.
Still I am on edge.
Powerless.
Scolded.
Emotionally
neglected.
I grew.
To scold and neglect
myself.
No other example to
follow.
But slowly I wake up to take
responsibility.
I give myself now the
nurturing
that I have always deserved.
It is not the lack of nurturing from my
past
that makes me suffer
now,
but the self nurturing I deny myself
of
in the present.
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