How to do This?
written by: Duane L Herrmann
I don’t know the first thing
about sacrifice.
I was taught to give
and care for others
from an early age.
Their needs were far more
important than my own.
Is it sacrifice
if that’s all I know?
Now, in old age,
I’m trying to learn
to care for myself,
to be nice to myself,
to do little things
I enjoy.
And it’s hard,
hard to think of myself
first.
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