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As I am...

It is a journey

made every moment

to see myself

as I am.

To cherish,

to not forsake

the unlovely

and the flawed,

to speak kindness

to myself

when I weep

because of what

I am not.

To believe

even my mistakes

bear the possibility

of redemption.