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Woman

It's not the length of your heels and the ability to walk them that defines your strength..... It's when your courage has been blistered and made swollen by life's odd yet you still continue walking like you've just started. It's not your colorblocking eyeshadows and mascaras that exude your motherly care..... It's your cry and compassion in your eyes for the man in the street without a home, the child on a winter's day without shoes on his feet. It's the cry for that family without food. It's your will to want to embrace the stranger passing by the wayside of the road. It's not your lengthy earrings that display your attentiveness...... It's when you want to understand the next person's story, be it a fellow taxiseat neighbour, fellow worker, fellow stranger you just met. It's not the golden, bronze, shiny bracelets and bangles that display your inner strength..... It's your ability to carry other people's load yet you still have your own to consider. Woman! You are not defined by your skin type, latest trend, make-up and all that. You are beautiful already...... You have been adorned with beauty on the inside Woman! Your strength is within, Let it out.....Let it out. Yes, put on your stilletos, eyeshadows, mascaras, earrings...... Put on your golden, bronze, shiny bracelets and bangles But do not.... I say again do not let it shadow your inner beauty

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Date: 1/21/2016 10:51:00 PM
Gladysgreat poem. Enjoyed reading........ SKAT **
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Date: 4/9/2013 3:36:00 AM
Great Poem..I would love to read more poems from you
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Date: 2/6/2013 3:58:00 PM
I liked this poem, i just wished if all south African women can come and busk in the beams of this POEM our lovely country would be healed. It reminded me of a lovely scriptures that talks of women being adorned of the inwardly with a meek spirit not outward costly apparel, welldone
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Date: 2/5/2013 9:52:00 AM
I loved this :) Great write, keep writing. xoxo, Hannah
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Gladys Thoko Mojapelo
Date: 2/5/2013 10:04:00 AM
Thank you
Date: 2/5/2013 9:34:00 AM
Nicely Done- Truely beauty is deeper than the skin. Thus to see the beauty within is a Godly trait given to man. Perhaps that's way the TV camera just doesn't quite get it .
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Gladys Thoko Mojapelo
Date: 2/5/2013 10:06:00 AM
Thank you

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