Poem:Can there be a day I go without a sigh or cry?

 Can there be a day I go without a sigh or cry? 

Perhaps 

Every awakening day- I decide to walk through it beautifully. Expecting to fill in my gratitude journal 

And ah! 

There I get frozen- in a crowded bus being molested by some stranger 

and 

Yes… I Sigh and cry. 

Then I wonder. 

Is my identity a reason? 

Then again I wonder 

Do I have an identity? I’m just a girl a woman, a female after all…

To be used 

For pleasure 

and my pain goes in vain 

and 

Yes… I Sigh and cry. 

But then I realise my responsibility, 

as a Mother

I nurture my son, to respect every girl, woman and female as his own sister, mother and grandmother. 

I teach him and help him understand 

that it hurts to be ill-treated no matter what gender you belong to. 

I teach him To respect, love and care 

And 

Yes… I cry with joy for I’ve penned in my journal and I’m grateful for them all. 

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