I If you can have your friend sit in your kitchen with troubles piled, not knowing what to do and ease her cares and help her just by listening and know that she would do the same for you If you can lend your voice to joy and laughter and sing and dance to some old blissful song but keep your wits when facing a disaster and know when something's right and something's wrong. II
If you can keep your head above the water when everywhere the tides against you rise If you can weep whenever tears are called for but know that thought and action there applies If you can put aside your own ambitions and find the means, long after he is gone, to feed and clothe and house your child or children when you don't have the will to carry on. III If you can trust yourself and your decisions but of your own mistakes you are aware If you can walk with pride amidst derision which seeks to put you down and keep you there If you have taken blows and cuts and kickings and struggled to maintain your self esteem and rose to get out with your meagre pickings and dared to be so bold as still to dream IV If you can do six things in sixty seconds and fix and build and organise and run If you can light the torch when justice beckons and fight until the fight is o'er and won If you can summon all that you must summon to pass a day in quiet dignity Then, the chances are that you're a woman and more that this no earthly form can be. by Jean Cross
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Ryan O'Sullivan
30/3/2013 09:51:28 pm
Lovely Jean! :-)
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Helen Cross
31/3/2013 05:03:45 am
Jean, as usual, your words are simple yet so effective. A wonderful poem.
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Thanks Helen. Good of you to say. Ryan, cheers.
31/3/2013 11:50:13 pm
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Anne
1/4/2013 06:23:24 am
So nice. Thinking of you both. Anne x
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