WOMANHOOD BY JESSICA DURU

❀ Cultivated as an ideal of womanhood,

 ❀ Ferocious and brave she stands.

 ❀ She is beautiful, that we know,

 ❀ Courageous, not concealed.

 ❀ When she walks, the people adore;

 ❀ In honour of her beauty, the trees bow.

 ❀ Song of praises are raised in her name;

 ❀ How tender, how sweet,

 ❀ How loving she is!

 ❀ Her skin no different from the sun,

 ❀ Diamond and gold no matching sight to it.

 ❀ She is ever-glowing;

 ❀ An egg to be treated with care;

 ❀ Never to be hurt,

 ❀ But to always be loved!