Compare Yourself to No One

Compare yourself to no one.
Nobody.
There is no one in the world like you.
Allow yourself to relax,
to sit comfortably and easily
within the folds of who you are.
Settle into yourself and the light
will reflect from you,
like sunshine on the water’s surface,
dancing, shimmering, rejoicing.
Ah, now I see you.

Anne writes: “If this world is one big house, poetry is the little room at the top of the stairs where I feel safe. Poetry steadies me, comforts me, challenges me. Reading it makes sense of the world without, writing it makes sense of the world within.
The poem above comes from my first collection ‘Take This Life’. For more information visit my website.”