WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME?

     Here is the poem I promised.

WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME?
By Five-Year-Olds 

What if I’m mean or angry
and I get mad at you?
Will you still love me? 

What if I’m sad and lonely
and I cry a lot?
Will you still love me? 

What if I know some scary secrets
and I don’t tell you?
Will you still love me? 

What if you get mad at me
and I say “I hate you!”?
Will you still love me?

What if I tell you all the horrible things
that people did to me?
Will you still love me? 

What if some of it was my fault
cuz I didn’t fight back?
Will you still love me?

What if you ask me to do something
and I say “no” to you?
Will you still love me? 

What if I want to talk to you
but I’m scared?
Will you still love me? 

What if you get mad at someone else
and I think you’re mad at me?
Will you still love me?

Please don’t get mad at anybody,
not even me,
cuz I get real scared
and I think
you don’t
still love me.

     “When I was finally able to open myself up to one person, a miraculous thing happened. It became easier to open up to a select few friends, to ecclesiastical leaders, and to my therapist. My trust level was so low that it always took many months before child parts were able to confide in someone new. Several different people befriended me and I could open up a little bit to them, but there was always a difficult threshold I was unable to cross which prevented me from really allowing myself to trust them completely and to be vulnerable.” (My Tears Fall Inside, page 67-69)