"Inner Child"

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