“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt“
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucius
Iwa ma le wa
Iwa ma le wa
Kamu ragba ka ta ragba
Kamu ragba ka ta ragba
Bobinrin so wa nu koni lori oko
Bokunrin so wa nu koni lori aya
Iwa ma le wa
Gbogbo oun to ndan ko ni wura o
Iwa ma le wa
(Character is beauty,character is beauty,If we add all together, character is beauty.If a woman loses character she loses her home, if a man loses character, he won’t have a wife. Character is beauty. All that glitters is not gold, character is beauty.)
you are a BEAUTY.
yes, everybody knows
men swoons at your feet
you are the gazelle
of the veldt
the peacock in the field
the gold fish of the sea
you are beautiful
yes, everybody knows.
you are of right proportion
the curves
are in right places
your skin
fresh and untainted
like that of a new babe
your eyes
are clear and
well shaped.
they are in right place
and right shapes
not too tiny nor bulging
your lips
are not too thick
nor are they slivers of foil
yes,
you are beautiful
everybody agrees that
you are.
your father and creator
created you well.
he spent a greater time
on you.
you are a good example
of his artistic mind
a light to show
his
special body engineering power
you are neither too dark
nor excessively light.
your muscles are not dropping
your feet are not flat
in fact
every part of your body
comes together to make
a complete whole.
you are
a paragon of beauty
a person of praise
an individual of envy
an object of worship
one whom a lot wants
to be like and imitate.
but…but
you are only beautiful outside
you are ugly within
you are proud and vain
you are always looking
down on others.
in your mind,
you are not a person
you are a goddess to be worshipped
a venus, an olokun
to be supplicated
nobody is as beautiful
as you
or
as you like to say
you are not the rejects
of God.
you are the apple of his eyes
is that so?
are you not a rotten apple
fine outside rotten within?
you
place emphasis on
your beauty
it is as if
it is the main thing.
in your mind
you are unequalled
is that so?
is your body not a
temporary clothe
which you will
discard soon or later.
the cloth that
will be eaten by insects
the body that will
crumble to dust
the hours you spent
making up
will come to naught.
think my sister, think
and tarry a while.
tarry a while
what will you do if
you are disfigured?
what happens if disease
settles in your body?
what happens if your skin
develops blemishes and spots
spots that cannot
be toned away ?
what will you be left with
my sister
what will you be left with?
nothing, nothing
except your manners
and inner being.
your body is nothing
but a covering
a covering that can tear
burn or destroyed.
your beauty is expected to
bring honour
not dishonour
to your CREATOR.
you are
paragon of beauty
we know
but the most beautiful
is the one whose inner beauty
overcomes outer beauty.
tarry a while, my sister
tarry a while.
beauty is nothing
manner is everything
you are caretaker of beauty
you will give account one
day
tarry a while, my sister
tarry a while.
