Girl Children's Survival Poem by John Sensele

Save girl children from knaves
Whose perception of daughters
Likens them to waves
Of chattels with lurid laughters

Whom they can marry off at will
To the most boisterous bidder
For fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts to sign a deal
In which girl children become fodder

To seeds and weeds of greed
Inherent in inconsiderate, incompetent adults
Whose degree, decree and creed
Swim in tumults and cults

In which selling girl children
Seems normal
But laws against early and forced marriages, brethren
Upon conviction lands felons for life in jail for girl children's survival.