My body at last, I claim you!
I live here!
I am not some discarnate spirit
using just any vehicle to get around….
for so many years I rejected my body because
it isn’t perfect according to the standards of my culture.
I have been unfaithful to it,
letting other’s opinions turn me against it,
allowing others to use it without love,
without tenderness…
Because I myself rejected my body I didn’t protect it, didn’t demand that it be treated
like the precious gift that it is…
My body, the temple of my soul deserves better from me.
I reclaim this body…
This body is a miracle;
it is the first gift of the Creator to me – my birthday present.
I take this body to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, to honour, love and cherish until death do us part.
I am a woman reclaiming my body”
- Janet F- Quinn
