i am a girl

for my Fiamah girls

i am a girl

Not a piece of property

Not your toy, not your baby doll

You will not be my sugar daddy

i am a girl

I don’t want to be initiated

Mutilated, confiscated, separated

I want to be educated

i am a girl

I don’t want to be married, or a mama

At least not yet

Until I find my prince

Not some pimp who promises to pay my school fees

Or help me with the rent

As long as I am pleasing him

i am a girl

Go pick on someone your own size

I need to breathe

To play, to dream

To know that I can be whatever I want to be

Not what or who you say

i am a girl

And right now a woman rules my country

A woman who was once a girl

Who did not let herself be defined by others

Who rose above and made history

So being a girl is not such a bad thing to be

You see

i am a girl

I have a hope and a future

I have my place in this society

And it is not beside you

Its in a classroom, at a desk

Being a star student in school

Because that saying that girls rule the world?

I am here to prove that its still true

i am a girl