If my body were my lover, I would

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My Body, My Love © 2008
Julie Jordan Scott

I look at my daughters – beautiful young women who amaze me with their grace and strength physically, emotionally and spiritually - and pray they will not bump into the same body-image-issues I have dealt with my entire life.

I remember as a young woman in my early 20's thinking I was limited in who would find me attractive if I wasn't statuesque and athletic, if I wasn't round enough in the right places and flat enough in other places.

I always seemed to have it backwards as far as my body was concerned.

It took a lot of loving from others and finally, a continual awakening in myself to "live the question" as was lead to write thought these words from the prompt my friend, Morgine provided:

"If my body were my lover, I would…"

For someone used to abhoring her body, this whole concept is foreign – yet as I age and become more comfortable with who I am and perhaps a subtle shift in societal norms says... statuesque and athletic is not the only desirable form.

I was surprised (and delighted) when in the free writing exercise these words came up:

Well, my body has been and is my lover – the one who never leaves me, always forgives me, fully supports me – sweet body love.

Maybe it is this realization that allows me the luxurious necessity of massage, an upcoming pedicure, the simple pleasure of clothing my body in lotion or air drying after a shower underneath the ceiling fan on a warm afternoon its breeze softly skimming my skin or letting my other lover drape himself in all of me, every part of me.

My pencil stops writing as I hold onto those images.

I let it.

Sometimes – no, most of the time, my best loving is done wordlessly.

= = =

My freewriting exercise ended sweetly, quietly and confidently.

My body has become my love.

What about you?

Write your own response to...

"If my body were my lover, I would…"

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