{"id":3494,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3494"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"love-yourself-first","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/love-yourself-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Love yourself first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Love yourself first.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 2, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI cannot tell why cutters cut<br \/>\nPerhaps to hide another pain<br \/>\nA protest that a door is shut<br \/>\nA try to pull against the strain<\/p>\n<p>But this I know, it cannot be<br \/>\nThe way to make a life more whole<br \/>\nThe cutter really has to see<br \/>\nThat she herself is not the goal<\/p>\n<p>You cannot show another love<br \/>\nUntil you love yourself again<br \/>\nYou have to put yourself above<br \/>\nThe thoughts that spiral down the drain<\/p>\n<p>Until you learn that you are fine<br \/>\nYour love is worth the world and more<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll never get the world in line<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t see what you are for<\/p>\n<p>So look around and see that you<br \/>\nAre everything somebody needs<br \/>\nAnd understand that best you do<br \/>\nWill answer someone&#8217;s special needs<\/p>\n<p>To hurt yourself can&#8217;t help that soul<br \/>\nAnd they mean more than life to you<br \/>\nSo love yourself and keep you whole<br \/>\nAnd soon the World will be brand new<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWritten to a cutter, remember YOU matter, YOU are important and worthwhile.<br \/>\nYour love will matter more than the world to one person, and to others too, so<br \/>\nlook at yourself, you are beautiful and can be better yet. Think of them next<br \/>\ntime you want to cut, and put the knife away, smile and know, you are better<br \/>\nthan that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love yourself first. by cricketjeff on January 2, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I cannot tell why cutters cut Perhaps to hide another pain A protest that a door is shut A try to pull against the strain But this I know, it cannot be The way to make a life more whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3494\/revisions\/8015"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}