A poem written by a teen female in Kabul

Pain is always with me

We are an ill fated generation 

I want to die and go west 

As here is not a save place 

I want to be a servant of this country 

But they don’t let me go to university 

I want to be a part of our society  

But they don’t care about me

When I make mistakes, it is because I am a woman 

They think of me as a convict 

When I turned ten 

They said you have to get a husband 

They say I am a shameless women 

They make me hate my religion

So pain let go 

I wanna run form this regime 

To reach to my dreams 

I wanna leave my homeland 

To be like a human being 

I wanna forget the sad days 

To start a new page 

My heart is full of pain!!

But it doesn’t have treatment 

I just wanna say at last 

I wish I had been born a man!