"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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