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Skipping Emotions, an excerpt from Do Pantyhose Lie?
“On the outside we still see the beauty
But inside we are so ugly
How could my own self lie to me?
And pretend we don’t see what we see
What starts as disappointment turns to hurt
What starts as a smudge becomes full blown dirt
The buzzer goes off: a red alert
As from the pain we try to skirt”
There are so many areas that this applies to and not all the lies are told by us. Many are told to us by the world, culture, Hollywood and other outside influences. In Hollywood, a man can continue working well into his fifties, sixties or seventies possibly. However, the same is not true for women with a few exceptions (i.e. Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon).
There is a confidence one must have in themselves that is not defined or detoured by Hollywood, magazines or anyone else but that person. This confidence must come from more than physical appearance, fame and financial status. Mature women are very beautiful and as they come into their own, their beauty in truth begins to rely less and less on their looks but on their inner beauty and confidence coming forth. This fact is illustrated in the poem “Women and Wine”.
Women & Wine, an excerpt from Do Pantyhose Lie?
“At one score (20) you were cute
At two score (40) you’re divine
Pouring out much more beauty
With each passage of time”
“So don’t let time fool you
As it tugs on your flesh
But know just like wine
You’re becoming your best”
There is a double-edged sword that the truth tends to bring out in some human beings. People sometimes tend or pretend to not care about unhealthy areas of their life physically, mentally, emotionally or, they apply makeup.
In the poem entitled “Until She Took Her Makeup Off”, a dying man ponders the truth of what has happened to him when it is revealed that his beautiful girlfriend is not what she appears to be. Although they are at two different locations, (she at home removing her makeup and he at a nightclub), the removal of her physical makeup pulls back a veil and reveals to the man in a vision her unfaithfulness and other sordid details that literally kill the man. As he breathes his last breath, he proclaims the following.
“Is this my fate killed by a lie?
No that’s not it I realize
A lie is empty and cannot kill
The truth of the lie makes my heart still
Fooled by a face so sweet and soft,
Until she took her makeup off.”
With that said, the book is by no means a depressing psychiatrist appointment. It is a fun, sometimes funny revelation and expression of many of the things women and men deal with each day. There is something in it for everyone. There are fun pieces, inspirational pieces, marriage pieces, controversial pieces all fitting into the puzzle called Life. As the New Year kicks in, make an appointment with yourself everyday… to enjoy Life!
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