Can a girl dream to be herself today
In this modern day and age as they say?
Can a girl dream to be accepted as she is
And give the fake masks and the false identity a miss?
Can a girl to dream be comfortable at every stage
When it comes to her clothes and her body image?
Can a girl dream to reach the pinnacle of success,
No matter where her roots lie in life’s game of chess?
Can a girl dream to talk freely
Without the fear of prejudice
Along with expressing her opinions
While breaking the cage of cowardice?
Can a girl dream to be treated as an equal to a boy
Even when she belongs to a community where she is a man’s toy?
Can a girl dream to be different and have the oxygen of freedom to inhale
In this world that rates her according to the superficial beauty scale?
Can a girl dream to not fit into the ‘Ideal Woman’ mould
Including the angelic daughter, the perfect wife and the mother with a heart of divine gold?
Can a girl dream to break the social barriers
And spread this virus of holy rebellion to other female carriers?
Can a girl dream to not follow in anyone’s footsteps
Or not live in the shadows?
Leave the past in the history pages
And face a new set of arrows?
Can a girl dream of finding a man who values her to the end
who may be her father, brother, husband, son, relative or friend?
Can a girl dream to be better version of herself
And treat all men with the potions of love and forgiveness from her heart’s healing shelf?
Can a girl dream and make that dream come true?
Yes, she can and I know it’s true;
It’s time to draw our own map to find the treasure of our life’s goal;
Let’s support each other in this journey of turning into a woman, so pure and whole.
Vizzmaya is a wanderer in the land of stories and an explorer in the sea of poetry. She is 10 years old but her life’s experiences make her writing age faster but gracefully. She is awaiting for the release of not just her first book but all her 7 e-books via Amazon by the end of November, titled- Vizzmaya’s wonderland (parts 1 to 7) which contain poems, stories, write-ups and jingles. She hopes they add positive energy to the lives of everyone who reads them and is passed on to others for their betterment.
Vizzmaya Jalal, a Class 5 student of St. Francis ICSE school, Mumbai, is a poetess, a writer, an aromatherapist, a herbalist, a classical singer, a classical dancer, a keyboard player, a basketball and chess player and a linguist who speaks 9 languages. She is an iron girl who sees her bedridden mother medically suffer like hell each day and yet inspires and motivates her to fly higher with the help of my maternal grandfather’s positive energy and take others along with her beyond the clouds of earthly problems and pain to a peaceful place where spirituality and science live together in harmony; thus staying true to her name, Vizzmaya which means wonderment.