Blaze on
 I was told when I was a child   Girls are to be seen and not heard  Girls are to be timid  Don't laugh out loud   its not really lady like    I was a strong  girl   Tall and strapping   Taller than others my age  I felt so ashamed  A clumsy long limbed clout   I envied the small thin figures  They looked so very delicate  In my size seven shoes  I loomed above most  They had to look up at me   The Mills and Boon books I read  Raved about the dainty damsels  The dark and handsome  young man  Was so enamoured  by her smallness  Her coyness and her helplessness    I could  never be small  Tall as I was   And with strong  broad shoulders  I looked athletic and fit  I so hated my strength    I tried to be what they wanted  Soft spoken and shy  Because I wanted it so bad  I really became just so  Gentle and shy, seen and not heard   I underplayed my strength  I buried my exuberant nature deep  Put on a face of calm serenity  An...