To keep moving forward
Sometimes you have to stop.
Rest.
Take care.
Just stay right there
and take a moment, an hour a day.
Away.
Just stay right there
and care
for you.
I know, I know,
I really know.
It’s really hard to stop
and grow.
There’s so much to do.
Tasks to complete,
ways we compete,
but it’s all obsolete
if you don’t just stop.
Hop off
the daily grind
and remember you.
You matter.
Your happiness is important.
You deserve the care you give away.
Give it to yourself too,
go on, do.
Treat yourself
or just tend to your needs.
Take care of business.
Take care of necessities.
Take care of YOU.
Self care isn’t all bubble baths and chocolate cake.
It can be tasks that make your heart ache.
Essential maintenance that isn’t fun
but needs done.
Stay
to move forward.
Halt
to keep going.
Stop
to Carry on.
This was my favorite part of your poem, ‘Self care isn’t all bubble baths and chocolate cake. It can be tasks that make your heart ache.’ I think that notion is oftentimes forgotten. Self care isn’t this pretty package with a bow on top, but it’s often messy, but necessary.
Yeah, there’s the sanitised self care that adverts etc are selling us at the moment, it’s become ‘trendy’ but self care is real, deep stuff and not always pretty.