Each one of us has the ability to love ourselves more. Each one of us deserves to be loved. We deserve to live well, to be healthy, to be loved and loving, to prosper, and the little child deserves to grow up to have a wonderful, wonderful life. ~ Louise Hay. Power Is Within You (Kindle Locations 2009-2010).

I’ve heard it said what I deserve
is five days…in the electric chair.
I have earned no mercy, no grace,
no reprieve. But still, I deserve to be loved.
Not by merit, by excellence, by  status…
But because I’m “part of the family”
as inane repetitive way-too-familiar
local ads for travel trailers or some such.
I deserve to be loved not because who I am
but because of whose I am. I have the choice
to accept the opportunity to have a life
that is wondrous, wonderful, welcome.