Feel myself

Today I took the excuse of a shower to not just bath myself

But truly enjoy myself

Not in a sexual way at all

Just in a sensual way

I caressed the bar of soap all over my body slowly enjoying the contours

The divets

Then I ran my hands over that soap

And enjoyed the slippery softness

The follicles that greeted me

And I luxuriated in the moment

In the glory and wonder

The marvel that is the human body

Grateful for mine

In all its fault filled glory

This is how God made me

Perfectly imperfect

Making me

The perfect specimen of myself

There currently can be found.

For you

To all those

Who have treated me kindly

Made a kind gesture

No matter how small

Given me light and hope

In a world that can seem so dark sometimes

To all of you

Strangers, dangers, friends and the likes

I offer you

A moment of peace and love

In your honor

For its in moments such as these

That a life gets defined 

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To all those that have misunderstood me

Judged me harshly

Blasphemed against me

Sought to harm me

Take me

Mame me

Subdue subjugate 

I offer you also

A moment of peace 

In honor of your heart

That it may grow so much

It explodes in your chest like firecrackers

Constantly going off*

And for me I offer the same

Because sometimes I am the former to one person

And the latter to another

And sometimes through absolutely no fault of my own

And sometimes simply out of sheer lack of mindfulness

*figuratively (like love fireworks going off for everyone and everything)