A Girl, A human Subjected to inhuman acts, Psychologically disturbed; Her Rights Violated! Chastity and Fidelity intended Rather, the reaping of pain! Intense Pain An act carried out in Filth; Said to make her pure; Pure they say for the ...
POETRY WAKE UP By: Inyang D. Akpan, Aiyedere/Ajibola High School, Girls Open your eyes This concerns you All of you How blind you are That you cannot see Your foolishness To be a girl is nothing Nothing, but trouble Trouble! Their ...
MY BRAIN-MY MONEY by Anosike Agnes Obianuju All my life as a child I always thought I had everything I wanted But as I grew older I realized I only got a few of them I thought and thought about what ...
Against Her Wish She came into the world to succeed Get a good education And live a fulfilled life Excellence was what she wished for Fate put her in a community Where her dreams were shortened Her dreams became nightmares ...
Life’s Challenges by Idongesit Young (Male, 17 years old) When you have doubts about yourself, About your worth, your values; When you failed at life and the world weighs you down, So you fall deeper in a hole, When you ...
Inhalation to Death by Mervis Emelife (18 years old-Lagos) People say I was well brought up That my parents showed me a good path to tread Up until my teenage years, obedience was my second name And people were glad ...
GIVE US A CHANCE by Mary Ukpa (15 years old) Young but shy, Like a bird with potentials but can’t fly One day, I say always I will speak, Without being shunned I feel unwanted and discouraged, Thus putting me ...
A Tribute To Woman by Tope Ogunlade If only mouth can tell Or eyes can disseminate the tidings And if only expressions can carry out The in-built tribute that belongs That specially made machine Highly sophisticated and complicated in nature ...
DELINQUENCY by, Gilbert O. Egule The International Federation of Women Lawyers We read in the papers, we hear on the air Of killings and stealing and crime everywhere We sigh and we say, as we notice the trend “This young ...
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Adapted from “Teaching True Abstinence Sex Education” by Pat Socia Keep those zippers zipped up tight And those buttons buttoned just right Clothes and “NO” are the protection, you see So you can be free, yeah-you ...
