International Girls Day – A Girl is Whole by All Means.. Not a Toy by Any Means

Are we really a developed or a Developing Nation? Or is it that we’re just developed in technology and other fields only, while our mental status is still the same regarding the girls and women of our society? And even today not every baby girl in the womb makes it to birth. Some girls who make it to birth, are then sold as serf, trafficked or married off before they even know the real significance of childhood. This isn’t a scenario of the past, but unfortunately is still happening today. In a country where we have made so much progress, where women are business owners, actresses, CEO’s, lawyers, doctors, scientist, engineers, pilots – where we now are leaders, this oppression is still happening.

 

A small poem dedicated to all the girl child’s.

Or may be the child like Asifa or Nirbhaya.. Though Nirbhaya was not a child but she was a Girl too.

Is it a crime to be a girl?

Is it a crime to be a she?

Is it a crime to be a daughter?

Is it a crime to be a female?

Is it a crime to be a wife?

Is it a crime to be a woman?

Is it a crime to be a mother?

These questions just keep popping up in my mind. Like really.

Is it a crime?

What a world,

What a world we live in,

What a fake world we live in!

A world that feels the girl child has to depend on the male.

A world that still gives the girl’s childhood to marriage.

A world that feels the girl child is supposed to stay home and do what, only chores?

The girl child is prone to rape

The girl child has to be security conscious

The girl child is being molested

The girl child is being abused

The girl child is being HARASSED

YET!

She is being SILENCED

YES!

She cannot say it because none would believe her,

She cannot say it because the world would put the blame on her.

It became a wound of the heart

It became a wound she has to nurse all by herself

She has been a strong girl all her life.

Have you ever sat the girl child down to have a conversation with her?

Meen, she has something to say!

The Girl child

Now, every Girl child repeat after me

I am ……………………

I am a Girl child

I have a dream

I have a voice

I have a FUTURE

I am a Girl of Dignity

I am a lady of Radiance

I am a woman of virtue

I am a GIRL CHILD