Author • Adefeyintola Adesegun

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The world would feed on you.

As a predator hunts a prey

Your life turns to a book

Hurled insults and critics,

Scribbled on each page,

The ink never dries.

Daily, she’d put up a brave face,

Hiding tears and wobbly chin

Mouth set in a slight smile.

She perfected the look over years

But could not keep it a secret.

Her mirror figured it out,

As she avoided staring at it.

It saw beyond her physical,

The pert nose and chubby cheeks

And a body totally amorphous,

Yet she hid under its shadow. 

So it said to her one morning,

“People will distort you

But breathe in your skin, darling

That is how love grows,

When you accept it heartily.” 

That is the truth about self-love.

HOW DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF?

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