Dear Body, I'm Sorry.

I’m sorry for blaming you for holding all the feelings I didn’t know how to feel. Just to get away from feelings, I tried to make you go away, to be invisible, to shut up

Dear Body,

I’m sorry for telling so many lies about you. I called you ugly, a waste of space. I reduced you down, and used words with you I would never use with others.
I’m sorry for all the times I’ve hurt you. I have starved you, scraped you, plucked pulled cut and burned you. I filled you with food then made you empty yourself. I have celebrated when there was less of you, and screamed at you when I thought there was even just a ¼ inch more of you.

I’m sorry for blaming you for holding all the feelings I didn’t know how to feel. Just to get away from feelings, I tried to make you go away, to be invisible, to shut up.

I’m sorry for hating you when you did nothing wrong.

I love you for staying with me, for never really leaving me even though I have tried to leave you. You are there, always. As long as I am there, you will be there. Here, we are together and we can and will never be apart.

I love you for the ways you let me experience life. Through adventure, through taste and smell and sound. I used to think my mind was safe and you were what was unsafe. Now I know my thoughts told me lies, but you never have.

I love you for introducing me to time. No one else will take the journey of life with me, all the way from beginning to end. As you change, I will remember what we have been through together. When you show lines and marks, it will be the storybook of what I have lived, reminding me daily of all the times I have laughed, fallen from the swing set, and squinted to see the beautiful day under a bright sky.
I love you for being a miracle on the inside. There is so much to you I will never understand. You are a mystery to me. And instead of frustration, now I feel full of wonder, and appreciation.

I love you, just as you are. (See full poem here) http://hillarylmcbride.com/dear-body-im-sorry-i-love-you/