I Want A Free Menstrual Pad Poem by Bamukunda Hillary

I want a free menstral pad
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Yes, a free menstral pad.
Not a free condom to my dad.
Or the free injectaplan
And dozen of free pills to depopulate my clan.
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Is it because am a teen?
Why do you take me for a tin?
Do I need to make noise first?
OK, can I please have a free pad fast?
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I hear shouts of salary increment
Taxation has now befriended everything
Operation wealth creation here
Operation safe sex equipments there
Free education is a hope forgotten
Women emancipation hit a dead end
Why sensitise me about abortion?
When I can live without the unwanted pregnancy.
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When I see my grandfather in a queue for free circumucision
I laugh at my president
Who insists a cloth or an old sweater feels better
Whenever I travel to the moon without a visa
Why can't they understand?
That it happens even when i wouldn't fancy it.
As I walk on this road not taken
I will shout in silence
That a free pad is better than a free contraceptive
That a free pad is millions nice than free and fair election
May be then I will be a proud girl.
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©Bamukunda Hillary©
2018