Afraid as a child.
 Still I am afraid.
On edge as a child.
Still I am on edge.
Powerless.
Scolded.
 Emotionally neglected.
I grew.
To scold and neglect myself.
No other example to follow.
But slowly I wake up to take responsibility.
I give myself now the nurturing
 that I have always deserved.
 It is not the lack of nurturing from the past that makes me suffer now,
 but the self nurturing I deny myself of
 in the present.
 
by Rita Loyd