Because I Am a Girl......

A simple poem with a very big message.

~~Girls account for 55 per cent of the out-of-school population~~
- UN Millenium Development Goals Fact Sheet in Gender Equality (September 2008)

“Because I Am a Girl, I Must Study”

By: Kamla Bhasin

A father asks his daughter:

Study? Why should you study?

I have sons aplenty who can study.

Girl, why should you study?

The daughter tells her father:

Since you ask, here’s why I must study.

Because I am a girl, I must study.

Long denied this right, I must study.

For my dreams to take flight, I must study.

Knowledge brings new light, so I must study.

For the battles I must fight, I must study.

Because I am a girl, I must study.

To avoid destitution, I must study.

To win independence, I must study.

To fight frustration, I must study.

To find inspiration, I must study.

Because I am a girl, I must study.

To fight men’s violence, I must study.

To end my silence, I must study.

To challenge patriarchy, I must study.

To demolish all hierarchy, I must study.

Because I’m a girl, I must study.

To mould a faith I can trust, I must study.

To make laws that are just, I must study.

To sweep centuries of dust, I must study.

To challenge what I must, I must study.

Because I’m a girl I must study.

To know right from wrong, I must study.

To find a voice that is strong, I must study.

To write feminist songs, I must study.

To make a world where girls belong, I must study.

Because I’m a girl, I must study.

If tomorrow never comes......I need you to know.....

I C-L-I-C-K you .....always.......

Ronan Keating
If Tomorrow Never Comes :
Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and
lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them
never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance
to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes