First kiss and sweet talk

Be my hero

I am me –

I have had it telling you all

that I love you

I have had it taking care

of you all

So today I spend Valentine’s Day

With me

I am me,

my own hero,

I even remember giving myself my first kiss

Lying in bed after bedtime

imagining what my first kiss would feel like

Shaping my lips into a little “o”

and kissing the soft part of my upper arm

Sweet talking away

Giving myself compliments and telling myself

how much I loved me.

Valentine’s day with me, myself, my girl.

I picked myself up today and

Took me for a ride by the ocean

sat next to me quietly in the car

felt the silence between interruptions of waves

constantly pounding the sand for more attention.

I didn’t have much to say to me

But felt my confidence grow in my own company.

“So, come here often?”

I have a long way to go, getting to know this person inside.

But after having spend Valentines Day with myself I realized

That I love me and I am my own hero.

                          Camilla Newhagen 2007

Photography by Naomi Fiss