"The Slope of Grace" by Cristina M. R. Norcross, 2016

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 by Pablo Picasso

(image credit: www.pablopicasso.org)

The Slope of Grace

I am not a size.

My body is not a number,

which I expand or shrink to.

I am the Beloved.

You are the Beloved.

Train your eye to see inside the shell.

Take a photograph of the Light

that never goes out.

You are a painting.

Beautiful curves that slope with grace,

magnificent lines of limbs –

a waterfall of cascading hair.

You are not broken, faded, or torn

from the smooth shine of youth.

You are true.

You are strong.

You are very, very real.

This is beauty –

wisdom, intuition, acceptance.

The self has no bounds.

Cristina M. R. Norcross, 2016

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