Friday, October 3, 2014

Appreciating Differences

by Cheryl Merrick

Young, still focused
on myself
I naively, yearned for
reassurance of my worth
in sameness
by trying to remake
my husband, mother, children, 
friends and neighbors
in my image


Now, many years later,
as I see my children
wanting to “improve” me,. 
I just smile and remember. 

At last, accepting my own uniqueness, 
I can finally truly appreciate
other’s differences 
and thoroughly enjoy
just being me. 

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