It doesn’t matter what your demons are.
Demons are not a factor in the work.
It doesn’t matter who has told you
for however long
that you’re not worthy

It doesn’t matter
what your regimens have been,
how you have marshaled all your forces,
whether you succeeded,
how you failed

This one thing
is revealed to you
beneath all that,
for once not requiring of you
any kind of change,
for once not measuring you
against any standard
except yourself,
to which you stand exactly
as you were made to be —
so loved, so celebrated,
so ineffably perfect
at being who you are.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 24, 2015