She's A Survivor

When she puts on her make-up

 

She takes off about ten years

 

She can easily pass for forty-five

 

When she smiles her eyes light up

 

But when she frowns they fade

 

To a dimmer shade of gray

 

She has streaks of silver in her hair

 

You can see the worry in her face

 

As she looks into the mirror on the wall

 

She feels so insecure

 

Life has done this to her

 

She fights within herself

 

To find her inner strength

 

For the courage and the will to go on

 

To face another day

 

Come what may

 

In her lifetime she's been

 

Beaten, battered and abused

 

But she's a survivor

 

She is me