See My Soul

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 See My Soul

I want my heart to be seen before anyone measures me

Before numbers

Before scales

Before quiet glances that try to shape me Into something lighter to hold


There’s already beauty with me

That starts within my eyes 

Because what I look toward

What I pursue

What I surrender to

That's where real beauty lives


I’m accepted now

Not months from now

Not after a transformation story

Not after a before- and -after reveal

Right now my soul is seen 


And if one day I step on a scale and I’m lighter

Let is be something that doesn’t cost me my peace to gain

I only want to lose anything in me that doesn’t Honor God


Actually I want to gain

Purpose

Prayer Time

The presence of God 

Which already recognizes me as art

His art.


I will keep becoming me

Not for acceptance 

But from it. 


S. Ambrose, 2026

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