It’s OK to take it easy,
slow down your pace for a while,
if your body tells you it needs such.

I hear this from my body today,
a yearning to just be,
without constraints or expectations.
She yearns for me to listen, and oblige,
the least I could do.

She asks for love, and compassion,
and acceptance.
Unconditionally.
“Love me just the way I am, now.”

So today, I will slow down,
listen to, and love
my body.