Weight of your heart

Just because when we met you were size 28

Does not mean when you wear size 38 after years we marry

I will not see you for what you are

Just because I can pick you to our bedroom anymore

Does not mean you must not pick up you spirit

I should not complement you of how you look

Just because we have 3 kids together and have stretch marks

Does not mean you are not attractive anymore

I should look else where

Truth is I knew that as years go by your body will change

Truth is I knew after having family you will concentrate more in being a mother and a wife to me

Rather than looking at yourself and your body

That journal you always write complaining that you don’t love yourself anymore

I ask you to close it

Start writing what a wonderful woman you are to me and my kids

Start writing how wonderful you are in your body

Start being proud of what you are

I lift you my spirit

I carry you always and where ever I go

I carry the most treasurable thing about you

I carry the size of your heart with me always

I carry the weight of your heart and what it has brought to me and the kids

I weighed you before marrying you and understood you were for me

Your weigh is growth within us not a weight to be ashamed off.

I Love you more than you can image

I am nothing without you and your input in my life

I choose right Heaven knows when I made you my wife

Umhlaziyi Ozimele

Sandile Mngadi