Silent Nights (Thoughts And Relizations)

The Making Of a Woman

From personal experience I can testify to the ignorance of the world, and its vain values.
I once had a "Friend" come up to me and say "wow you did your hair, you actually look like a girl".
As if the untamed wildness of my curls made me less of a women. As if had to shapeshift myself to fit into a box of looks that society had put together. As if the only thing that made me a woman was the clothes that covered my body.
That left me thinking... what makes a women?
lack of testosterone
having the ability to carry life
And oh
instead of a penis we have a vagina
But no.
None of that matters if your eyebrows are not done
What makes a women is having your hair did
Having your nails so long and colorful that they can replace the rainbows in the sky
A voice so angelic that could calm the strongest of storms
What makes a women is having to depend on a man
as if our purpose on this earth
Is To please the opposite sex
And continue the cycle of
Learn how to cook or you will never get married
Mouths full of, sit up thats not lady like,
Stop cursing, is not attractive that hunts me everytime I look in the mirror
Women
Yes, we are fragile
Fragile like a bomb from the fields of vietnam
real women are more than just pretty little things
Behind the foundation lies the soul of a fighter
The mascara hides the pain in her eyes from those endless nights of crying because the man who she depended on left her for the best next thing
Now
she can't get her nails done
she needs every last cent to be able to feed her children
She is a single mother with a job that only pays her minimum wage
She wakes up at 6 am in the morning everyday looking for a better life for her children
She is out on the streets risking her life for her family
She is in a hospital bed fighting cancer
Her life is falling Apart but she stills keeps her head up high
As real women should do.