250505 Ode to Women

 Ode to Women

I've been a woman all my life

A daughter, sister, mother, wife

Thus, view things as a women can

Not better but different from man

I see things with a woman's eye

And I am prone to easily cry

Yet, just because I deeply feel

I'm no way weak, but made of steel

For I will never shy away

Of responsibilities thrown my way

I might cry through them, that is true

But, still I'll do what I must do

I'm tough but tender, you can see

Respond to others lovingly

Yet, take a strong stand if I must

When I see things that are unjust 

Yes, I am quite the paradox

Can dress in heels or old gym socks

Will use kind words to uplift you

But also have said harsh ones, too

Would give you the shirt off my back

But don't always behave with tact

Will render aid though hour is late

Also known to procrastinate 

I'm strong enough to bear a child

And raise them so they don't grow wild

Yet, soft enough to weep inside

When punishing because they lied

Yes, I'm a woman; God made me

The way he wanted me to be

A role that's not the same as men

For I am wholly feminine 

And in the Garden, God made each

He made an Adam and an Eve

Both in his image, yet different 

In just the way Creator meant

And when God made a him and her

Equipped me to be nurturer 

With the desire to feather nest

A plan that Father thought was best

I thank you, Abba, every day

That you chose to make me this way

I celebrate femininity

And everything that makes me me