love your body

feel its curves and planes

softness and hard edges

folds and hidden hollows

smoothness skin

roughness scars

for if you don't won't can't

how will anyone else love it?

how will you allow them?

and if, when, no-one else does

even if only for a little while

even if for all your life (and are you sure?

it's not just you who loves undeclared)

still

its beauty will be loved

touched

held

caressed

by you

7th June 2015; prompted, I'm afraid, by me feeling my bum this morning as I was getting out of bed. Sorry!