Today i opened my eyes for the first time
And everywhere around, there's silence
People around me are mourning at my birth
Including my own parents to whom i belong
Just because i am a girl!
Nobody cares for me
Every time i am taken for granted
I am nothing more than a commodity to others and
A burden on my parents
Just because i am a girl!
Every aspect of my life includes restrictions
My movements, my decisions, my lifestyle, my thinking are not mine
They are something which i want to owe
But i don't or maybe i won't
Just because i am a girl!
Love, respect, care is something for
Which i am not meant
Every evil in this cruel world exists due to me
Just because i am a girl!
My emotions and my feelings
Are something to play with
My body is something to use for
I am something to be disgraced for
Just because i am a girl!
The atmosphere around me kills me
It deepens my sores more than before
This silence and these false statements
Makes me feel like hell
Just because i am a girl!
The thought of being a girl
Makes me feel like the worst
It makes me feel regret
That why i am not a boy
At least i would have lived myself
Just because i am a girl!
They put restrictions on my way of walking
Way of talking and way of dressing
If clothes are something
That can save me from being raped
Then why those women with veil over their
Bodies are raped
Nobody has the answer
Just because i am a girl!
I can't step out of my house
I can't wear what I want to
I can't even choose my carrier
My hands are completely locked with fetters of
Helplessness and with the declining thoughts of this growing world
Just because i am a girl!
Some call me a slut
Some call me shameless
Some call me a raped girl
Some call me a divorcee
Some call me a burden
I have various tags of misfortune over myself
And the reason is not known till yet
Just because i am a girl!
I too have a soul, a heart
That are filled with emotions and feelings
But don't have the right to feel them
I have a body, but the soul is lost somewhere
I have no memories of happiness
And nothing to become nostalgic for
If i refuse to showcase my body
If i take a stand of being a girl
To fight against all the cruelties which i face
Then I have acid attacks on the other side
At last, i have no escape
Just because i am a girl!
I have a world
In fact the world is originated from me
But without any respect and worth
At the end,
My mind again strucks to the same question
That why i am a girl?
Composed by:-
Divyanshi khajuria
