'Tis the Sum

The day and her spotting rain
Turning dry embankments
and clear rivers to mud
'Tis the drizzle’s sum of one year
As the night's crickets moan
For the hunter’s meat that clung to my bones
Lay dead of thirst
Untouched nor pursued
beneath this hungry flood
With its cracked lips and blistered tongue

-Susie Edging
3/13/2010

To Thy Own-self Be True

Today I read a poem from a another blogger on his poetry site, Mangled Verse entitled, "I am/Not." It reminded me of a recent post that I published on my myspace that I neglected to repost here, on my blogspot that I now presume relevant:

I am learning that accepting someone completely does not equate their complete acceptance of you. As a matter of fact, sometimes it just simply means that their reality doesn't match yours. Sacrificing oneself is always too much for anyone to ask. When the relationships in your life prove to come to these crossroads, I think it is important for one to remember and practice simply allowing the other persons to be themselves without writing labels. In my personal opinion, this is real unconditional love. And unfortunately, fully accepting that person sometimes means to also let them go. Indeed, I have always struggled with this concept. But, in the end, we all are imperfectly beautiful people and we all need to be encouraged and to encourage to accept ourselves and to accept someone else for not being fully accepting of us. It's one of those major grey areas of life. It doesn't mean anyone is bad OR good. Contently, I am as large as my limitations and perspective, just as you are bound to your limitations and perspectives. What will be will be. I wish nothing but the best for all the people I love, here with me now, or not. Be true to yourself. Trust in this and everything else will follow.

What do you believe it means to be true to yourself? I am quite interested in hearing what your life lessons have taught you.