Standard

It doesn’t matter what your demons are.

Demons are not a factor in the work.

It doesn’t matter who has told you

for however long

that you’re not worthy

It doesn’t matter

what your regimens have been,

how you have marshaled all your forces,

whether you succeeded,

how you failed

This one thing

is revealed to you

beneath all that,

for once not requiring of you

any kind of change,

for once not measuring you

against any standard

except yourself,

to which you stand exactly

as you were made to be —

so loved, so celebrated,

so ineffably perfect

at being who you are.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 24, 2015