Eye Candy
You hear what men say,
you hear it all the time
How you look so good,
how you look so fine
But you never were someone
who let that go to your head
You never let the sweet talk
let you be easily misled
You always thought of yourself
as being more than eye candy
There was so much more to you than just that
You had a gear eccentric mind,
around tools you were real handy
You were that girl who wore the engineer hat
All that most men saw
was a genetic anomaly
What was alien to them,
you were your own Ellen Ripley
There were a few who respected you,
appreciated your vast intellect
They marveled at the things you knew,
you were a bona fide scientist
You always thought of yourself
as being more than eye candy
There was much, much more to you than just that
You had a beautiful cerebral mind,
around a lab you were real handy
And every professor deferred to sit until you sat
A tribute to my beloved sister Shangaleza
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