Hurry! Don’t wait
To know all your beauty
Lest it run away and leave you,
Old and grey!
Lest an old man see it in you first,
And see with the eyes of Lust,
To make you into something unclean,
Unnatural, and not you!
Women, girls, hurry! Don’t wait
To know you are God’s special creature,
Loved and perfect.
Lest the World take you for something
You are not,
And force you, through ungodly pressure
To stay there.
Hurry! Don’t wait!
For uncles or fathers or brothers to misrepresent you
Fail to defend and protect you,
To leave you to the wolves and grime
Of society.
Women! Girls!
Speak up now!
Hurry! Don’t wait!
Erika
