03/03/2024
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, in fact,
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’
https://www.waterstones.com/win/i-wish-i-knew-prize-draw
Art by Helma Speksnijder
