What To Teach a Girl
If the world was my classroom...
there'd be desks with books of blank pages
pens and pencils and paints to
the side and around them....
there'd be music to inspire
words softly spoken never voiced
loudly or raised uncomfortably...
I'd teach,
that girls have power to cry when hurt
fight when threatened
mend the broken hearts of those we love
support those we care about
girls, like boys, have the power to do anything
we think that we need weapons of violence to feel strong...
guns, knives...they give a false strength that
soon shows fear and weakness in our auras
We needn't any of those...
with just a book of blank pages
and crafty utensils to draw and paint
we are ready....
to show what we got
to be who we are
to know that we are perfect.
If the world was my classroom, I'd teach a girl...all girls....
that we can fight hard like a man,
love just as passionately as a man,
and care and cry like a real man should.
We are strength and we have strength.
Copyright © Princess Corazon | Year Posted 2012
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