today

look at someone you love

and say:

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“you don’t need

to do a thing

or be a thing

or achieve

any single thing

to be valued–

you just are”

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repeat that again to some

people that

mean the world

from a heart that truly

believes it for those

that you adore

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then look in the mirror

and say it again—

for that is also true

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©Heather Pound 2022