Because I Love Me

To be so in love with someone,
Truly in love with someone,
You love all their flaws and battle scars.
Their laughs and mood swings.
Their hopes and dreams.
To be in love with their history,
Their contagious smile,
Their eyes,
Their voice…

But love goes past the physical.

It goes past the superficial.
It is not a feeling.
It is not an attraction.
It is an action.
It is the willingness to die for someone,

But, it is equally, the willingness to live for someone.

To wake up everyday smiling because
They're here,
And you’re here.
But before loving someone else,
You need to learn to love yourself.
You need to have a healthy relationship with yourself.
That can start now.
With accepting your history,
With accepting your flaws and your battle scars,
With accepting that you are not damaged,
That it is not your fault,
You have fallen victim.
That your “no” should have been enough.
And it's not your fault they kept going.

why did you keep going?
why did you hurt me?
who do you think you are?

What gave you the right?
To take what's not yours to take,
To infringe upon what's so purely mine.
What made you do this?
To ruin a healthy relationship,
To ruin a healthy person.
To ruin me.
But that's the thing,
I know now,
You didn't ruin me.
I am not damaged.
I did all I could do.
I did what I was taught to do.
It was not my fault.
I have been made a victim.
And by accepting this,
By writing this truth;

I am made a victor.

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