Stand in a good place when you love

Know yourself that you are fully above

The arrows others shoot at their targets

Which they've sharpened on stones yet



When you love yourself quite completely

Then you'll not be hurt - and will sweetly

Shrug off the points as they hit your armor

For netting around you is laden with ardor



And showing this in everything you do

Will protect your stance from head to shoe

Love who you are and others will then see

There is beauty to behold - for you are free



Of the pain which so many do skate upon

And deep down in your heart - you are strong

As you tap only the goodness which does abound

For you are fully at one with yourself and thus sound



Out the good vibes in every thought you do utter

Never saying anything which makes others stutter

For your words are carefully placed on tongues

In sequential order as they all do come along



And using these in patterns painted to rise

Spirits from out of the tightness of their vise

Which some have at the ends of their benches

To hold in check the beams in their clenches



Keep showing the love you have for them

Which from your own self-love does stem

Then you will imbue them with your magic

And avoid the pitfalls of anything at all tragic



Loving others is really that pure and simple

Do it, and you will free yourself from pimples

Upon your skin - most often caused by stress

Just because you're tapping it and so will bless



Others with the goodness you do feel inside

Which is so overflowing, you cannot at all hide

As it seeps from pores which breathe out love

From every corner of your being and from above



Christopher W. Thomas

10:23am Wed. 12/17/97