Aanchal Chaudhary – 8 ‘H’
She learns she is a girl
Not with a sense of pride
Her young mind feels that
She is on a weaker side.
She doesn’t even grow enough
To realise she has a gender
Her body becomes important
When her heart is pure and tender.
How to sit and how to walk
Whom to talk and what to say
Enough restrictions before she even feels free
Can she rise above and find her way?
She has to play with a doll
Why can’t she fly an aeroplane?
Before she realises, she is told
What she can’t do and what she can.
We live in the age of women power,
But a girl is still married off a young age,
Female feticide still exists in the society,
She is free but within a bigger cage.
She always remembers that she is a girl,
Gender stays in her mind, never goes away,
Give us a boy, they still pray,
Who can even see her dreams are,
Buried by the weight they lay?