Shabana Stanekzai
Girl,
You only have today.
Maybe when you wake up tomorrow
Your school will be burned
And your black uniform and white scarf
Will be drowned in the well of never-ending miseries.
Stand up!
Girl, hurry.
Maybe tomorrow they will have made you a sex slave.
Do not delay. Do not sleep.
You have only today,
This hour,
This minute.
Take it and do not let them
Cage you far from windows
For your body
Once again.
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Read this piece in Persian here.