Will you love me anyway?

Will you love me anyway

Even if I don’t achieve great things

Will you listen to and honour

The heart in me that keeps beating

Keeping its flickering flame alive

Even in darkness

A flame that is so often

Blown about by any breeze

Often I hear you whisper

Not enough

Don’t you realise

That my journey is far from over

For it feels to me

As though you haven’t truly loved me

In the darkest of times

There were times

You criticised me so much

That I had to

Bury the silent screams of protest

Deep inside my tissues

So now I ask you

Will you love me anyway?

This is not a question

I am asking of any outside source

Or of you dear reader

But of myself

For here deep within the circumference of self

Is where love must be found

To answer all the deep criticism

That whispers its doubts

Challenging us

In the midst of loneliness, uncertainty and fear

To find the inner knowing

That we are

Truly

Enough