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“Marry him!” He Didn’t Die For Nothing
If you want our future to gleam,
Remember the last girl? Woke up one morning
Eloped with a beggar, died in a slope. Heard them crying
“What is it?” she said
He is your best chance, “Kenny was shot by the police yesterday” they read
Now hurry up, this is your last chance!
For the audience, just another black boy killed
2 years later, For the media, another headline to build
I still hear of that girl, For the whites, a boy who deserved death
No dreams, no aspirations But for the blacks, another family member out of breath
Her mind still awhirl,
With regrets and hopes, The incident was out the next day
Imagining life before wedlock, The boy was seen with a gun and the white officer shot him away
Friends, family and beautiful dreadlocks, For many it may seem right, it may look justified
But this story is of a 14-year-old who died
A time where her body was hers,
Beatings were unheard of, You’ll be surprised to know
Those were the carefree years, How many blacks are killed for the same reason
It’s a little suspicious, you know
Now a young woman, How little they care about these acts of treason
with children twice the age that she wed,
Her husband lived a long life, Consider it ‘okay’, consider it ‘fine’
He is now dead. But she won’t let those protests and signs
Go meaningless and out of line
She is a caged bird, never to be free, Their color, disability, difference makes them unique
From this child marriage insanity, Don’t make it a subject for you to critique!
Many others like her, what to escape this world,
But with the shackles and burdens in her life, Tvisha Gulati
She still has to be a good mother, MYP -3
And conventional widowed wife.

Chained to this never-ending tragedy till her last breath,
All she waits for now is death.
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