Because I am a Girl!

You always have to bow down,

learn it is always your mistake.

How dare you didn't say sorry

it was all your mistake and not your brother's

How dare you speak in such a loud voice

How dare you did not clean the furniture

we will not pay your fee

Go, and find a job and pay for the fee

How dare you not listen to what we say

How dare you ever ask for more

We will kick you out of the house

Go, find a place to live, we can't bear you anymore

Born as a girl is a mistake indeed,

my only job is to grow up,

get married and produce babies.

Taking care of my natal would be all I will be bound to do.

Had I been born as a boy,

things would have been nice.

My father and my grandmother would not have regretted my birth

I would have been privileged to be able to study, work and live independently.

But nowhere is safe for a girl like me

In my own country India, girls are worshipped so that families are blessed with boys.

I would be forcefully taught to cook and do chores,

while my brothers would be sent for higher studies.

Obeying every male member of my family and my natal family

would be a key rule.

A disobey will drive me to anything - a slap

But for everyone in my society

It is always the wife who provokes her husband to abuse herM

My family would never support me

In Africa, things would have been barbarous

I would have been mutilated at a small age

Baring that pain all my life

Bearing, that stinging pain while doing every and anything.

Oh almighty, please call me.

I don't want to live here

I would have loved being born a boy

Oh Almighty, I can't live in this patriarchy.

Because I am A Girl!