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Be a Woman

You adore the reflection you see
So beautiful you are, so pure your beauty
I see through the crack in the door 
Brushing your hair so devotedly!

I know to them the favourite you are
Your eyes glisten like far away stars
I know that to them their angel is you
You’re so perfectly pretty, anyone would love you

I study the mannerisms of you. Your smile stops hearts beating - it is so beautifully you.

I cry in the night because of you
I lose sleep and am tired because of you
I look at the reflection of me
My eyes, my skin is just not your beauty.

I fool myself saying how pretty I am
But your teeth are so perfect and white you light up a room no matter where you are

I accept that I’ll never be you
The shadow, the one always behind!
The people we meet don’t see me
They look at you and see all they want to see

I love you but hate you as well
I can’t stand when you laugh as their attention is no where else

My sister you will always be
The boys, the men will never see me!

I’m sorry to hear how you are
The lines and the age dimmed the light of the far away star!
They don’t open the door for you anymore
Your complexion lost the glow of who you were once before.

Though pretty you always be, when youth became a memory so did your drop-dead beauty!

Now age is as cruel as cruel can be
The Woolf whistles now call for someone else’s beauty

I’m sorry that you can’t let go of the perfectly pretty you
But you can’t dress like that anymore and be in anyway cool

Let go of the youth that was you
That was innocence’s fool
You are so much more than what you see.
You are much more than what they will ever see.
Let go of the past, you’ll always have memories 

Be a women. 
Be more than they think you are.
A women is much more than a smile or the eyes of glistening stars

Be a women for what you want to be
Be a women of substance, be a women like me.

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Fran Delaney-Barron Date: 12/8/2023 12:59:00 AM The vantage point of one sister to another is powerful as well as the theme of gaining self worth from physical beauty. The last line sums up the predicament. Well done! As one of 3 girls in my family, very little captures the relationship of sisters. You did it so well here. Login to Reply

Suzanne Delaney Date: 9/19/2019 3:04:00 PM This tells the story of a woman aging, so accurately. Good to read your words today. Added to my Favs. Login to Reply A Yorkshire Poet Date: 9/20/2019 3:55:00 PM Hi Suzanne, Thanks for your comments and selecting it as a favourite. I love real women and tried to express this has you said. Cheers