03/11/2023
OR YOU COULD JUST LIVE
You are going to wish your body was more
you are going to wish your body was less
you are going to wish your body would change
you are going to wish your body would not.
You are going to wish your body was many things
between now
and the day you leave this mortal coil.
And one day
as is always the way
you will look back
and see
that your body was always as it should be doing its best
to be you
for you.
And you are then going to wish that just once you had told your body
I accept you, as you are, right now.
And that maybe had you done this
you would have spared yourself a lifetime
of wishing for something you didn’t really ever need.
That what it was you should have been wishing for
was the courage to accept
the strength to embrace
the wisdom to really see
what you have.
You’re going to wish for many things when it comes to your body.
Or you could just wish for health.
And live your life, flawed and beautiful.
Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I knew’
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Art by Patricia Jacques
