Art & Poem – “Inner Child”

“Inner
Child”

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 the past that makes me suffer now,
 

But the self nurturing I deny myself of  in the present.

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