Hello my body,

I want to tell you today how much I thank you for having been with me for so long on all paths my life followed

I did not always give you the attention, the affection or simply the respect you deserve

Often, I even ignored you, maltreated you, beaten you up with indifferent resentment, with doubtful silences

You are the companion I abused the most, I cheated on you, and today, standing in the mid of my life, I discover you, with a bit of emotion, I discover you with your secret scars, with your lassitude, with your amazement and your possibilities.

I surprisingly find myself loving you, with sudden desire to hug you, to treat you, to give you some good. I want to offer you unique gifts, to draw flowers on your skin, to offer you Mozart, to offer you the laugh of the sun or to introduce you to the dreams of the stars.

But today, my body, I want to tell you I am trustful to you
No, not in spite of myself, but in the deep acceptance of your love.

Yes, I discovered you loved me, my body, that you took good care of me, that you were diligent, astonishingly present in all acts of my life.

How much violence did you endure to make me be born, to let me live, to let me grow in you.

How many illnesses did you spare me, how many accidents did you go through to save my life

How much abandonment did you accept to finally let me enter pleasure?

Of course, sometimes I share you, I let you be loved by others, by one I know, who would take you away if I let her(/him)

But now that I have met you, my body, I won’t let you go, we will go in eachother’s company until the end of our life together , and no matter what happens, we will grow old together

By Jacques Salomé