This year when I make my list for Santa
I will be sure to include myself in all I want
Not just wish for you
And for you to love me too
Because I wish for so much more
Not for things that were before
I want to wish my own wishes
And have my own dreams
I still want to experience things
Be a full complete human being
Not just what someone else wants
Or needs
This Christmas
And this season of light
My wish is not to hold you tight
Love you still
I might
But I wish now with just me on my mind
Living here and now
In this time
This Christmas
I am on the top of my list
So please Santa grant me this wish
Not for someone else to fall in love with me
But finally
May I love me completely
Accept my flaws as beauty
My imperfections
My exceptions
Blemishes and unsightly spots
The parts seen by others not
For I love those parts of me
It is who I be
So I hope this year I will know
It doesn’t matter where I go
Or who I am with
If I fall short to myself
There will be no one else
For how could I expect anyone to love me
If when I look in the mirror what I see is unsightly?
To love
I seem unworthy
Undeserving
This Christmas
Santa please grant me this wish
Love thyself
Cause I got loving thy neighbor down
In love with everyone in this town
That is also why I can no longer wish for you
Cause you knew that was true
Felt I never really loved you
Still do
This year I am going to love me too
And I didn’t need to buy anything
I just need to stop trying
Just do
Do what Jesus told you
Love thy neighbor
As you love thyself
If I love my neighbor
But not myself
I missed the message
This Christmas
To celebrate the Lord
I’ll just listen to their words
Written as holy scripture
To paint mental pictures
So we all can understand
What is the job of man?
To love
Clear as a winter night from that song
Of a young family who did not belong
But they brought a child into this world
That was the plan all along
To love thyself is never wrong
And this Christmas
It is the only thing on my wish list