The Editor, Sir:

WHILE WALKING on the road one day, I overheard a con-versation among youths my age, or probably older, two guys and a girl.

These were the lines I caught: (apparently the question was directed to Guy 2)

Girl " ... so she's not your boni fide?"

Guy 1 " ... watch ya, not at all"

Guy 2 " ... no sah, she ... (hiss teeth)"

Girl "I coulda swear she a yuh wife, so she a wah"

Guy 2 "she ah borrowed goods"

Girl " ... oh cool ... "

Borrowed goods

Ladies, women, girls, gals - females - whichever category you place yourself, no guy has the right to 'style' or refer to you as borrowed goods, well that's if you don't give him reasons to. The above lines in the conversation disturbed me, I'm by no means feminist, but I mean, what exactly is it that men see females as ... !

The word 'borrowed' refers to being on loan or for rent, goods can be seen as possessions. Putting them together the guy was actually stating that the girl he apparently was or is involved with is not his possession, he is just renting her; she's simply a loan.

I really don't know if I should blame the girl or the guy, but let me say this much -

I don't know about most of you, but I can speak for myself and some of the women I know; I consider myself very expensive. There is a high cost for me, I am not cheap, guys can't buy me with words or regular lyrics or even their looks.

Supreme Being

I am not like novels, clothes or even food that you can pick up off the shelf - I am rare, there's only one me. I cannot be shared, and I will not be distributed. I consider myself a jewel, I don't care if you don't see me that way what matters most to me is my name/my attribute - what people think about me based on facts and not what is heard.

If I don't put myself on a pinnacle, no one else will.

Woman was extracted from man. Everything else was made by words but the Supreme Being did a special work on the female species, carved by His Hands - which is a clear indication that we are not normal, we nuh cheap! It's rude for someone to refer to us - as borrowed goods!

Live as ladies, let men search and work hard to win you, Christian ladies. The saying goes we must be so well hidden in Christ that a man has to be real deep in God to find us!

Ladies, put a price on yourself. You are expensive! Well, if you all don't want to accept that fact then I will - I am expensive, and I am not for sale, neither am I on a loan or for rent!

Any guy who gets me, gets a treasure, tell yourself that ladies, and act it.

Much love to you all. Be what God created you to be ... a lady!

I am, etc.,

RHOSHEDER HENRY (LYSHAWN)

radicalrhosh@yahoo.com

Kitson Town, St Catherine

Via Go-Jamaica