Of People and Beauty

Ethiopia

No woman is more beautiful than the young chocolate woman walking on the roadside. Her barefoot slender figure is wrapped in a white dress. On her head a yellow bag of grains, on her back her little baby in a leather holder adorned with bone rattles at the seams she walks so lightly that she barely touches the ground. Her chocolate complexion glows in the warm sunrise light.
Sometimes she wears a different dress. Often she holds an umbrella over her head to protect her from the sun. At other times she carries a bag of charcoal or cow dung on her back. But every time she walks she has the same upright posture, the same dignity and beauty radiating around her.

And no man is more handsome than the tall slim dark man in his sparkling white clothes holding his long wooden stick across his shoulders. When he smiles his face brightens up with warmth. He is a shepherd even though his sheep or goats may have got lost in time.