The Whole of Me

© 2009 susan mucklow

I choose to love the whole of me
Parts pleasant and distasteful
Idyllic view, value and worth
Pander esteem illegally

Admit the whole, accept the all
No dissection or rejection
Iconic image stripped away
To embrace what it appalled

One is real and false another
I admit I cannot change it
I trust the One who authors both
Causing one to prove the other

I regard the inner bully
As the contrast that’s intended
Instead of running from the truth
I remain to see it fully

I won’t disdain unwanted traits
Or scorn the imperfection
Love is asked to stay in place
To unify what once was hated

That which disturbed my being
Was reinforced by my resistance
Demanding change and false control
Subverting grace and all receiving

Environment and all within it
Are unchanged within my border
Innocence casts a truer view
Forever forged within love’s image