Biggest Fan
A poem
How does one end
The “less than” cycle?
How does one
Break free?
So deeply engrained,
It influences every thing
One does, says, thinks
Do you have to go back
-all the way back
And find where it first came from?
Conflicting advice, not sure what to do
Shouldn’t the past just stay there?
You cannot heal that which you’re not aware
And so, they say,
The first step is acknowledging
But, it doesn’t all just flow smoothly from there
A long, hard battle
Fought going uphill
To try to make sense of it all
That feeling that you really are somehow less than
Not as good
Not as smart, funny, serious, clever, wise, pretty, strong, kind, tough, nice, skinny, tall, dressed, educated, accomplished.
Whom have we decided we need
To answer to?
We all know the saying
We are are our own worst enemies
The critical voice so devastating and cruel
We treat ourselves worse
Than our biggest foe
How do we change this
So our children can grow
Not hating themselves
But loving instead?
How can we show them to be their own
Biggest fan?
