Treat Her in This Manner

Treat Her in this Manner

Honor her

don’t humiliate her,
show her love,
do not leave her
motivate don’t
discourage her,
promote and never
prevent her reaching
her desired goals.

Support rather suppressing

her,
elevate don’t relegate her,
rescue don’t ridicule her.

Defend instead of deserting her,

fortify and never leave her
unguarded;
her life-add more value
don’t write down or
write her off.

Stop not at sustaining her,

neither subdue nor suppress,
but encourage and promote.

Believe her,

give no room for disbelieving,
trust more but doubt less,
lighten her load
never be a burden;
make her laugh,
never make her a cry.

Make her a complement,

not a service provider,
a partner not a maid;
a fellow builder,
not a material for building,
a team member not a
spectator at the theater.

You will gain her respect,

she will trust you,
brother you will become to her,
she will commit herself to you
eternally and
father, you will become to her.

As World Remembers Our Girls.

As World Remembers Our Girls

Because I am a Girl:

Because I am a girl,

abort me not,
rather save my life-
to be someone else’s:
mother, sister, aunt,  and
grandmother;
to be a nation builder
support women like me
to build the world.

Because I am a girl,

give me equal chance
with my male counterpart,
education-deprive me NOT-
early marriage-commit me NOT-
into it.

Because I am a girl,

do not rape me,
turn me not to sex object,
prostitution never direct
my feet at.

Instead nurse and nurture me

for tomorrow’s job,
a better wife,
a wonderful mother, and
a builder of the nation.

Because I am a girl,

spare me of all cultural barriers
that may kill my potentials,
rather challenge me
to keep building on my ability.

Because I am a girl,

never see me as
someone else’s property,
but rather asset to the nation;
give me today’s best
that I may give you “rest”
tomorrow.

Because I am a girl,

do not write me off,
please, give me a gentle nudge,
a listening ear you shall have and
obedient mind without question
I will always give.

Because I am a girl,

raise me just like
my brothers,
I shall without fail
turn good and fulfill my
four-divinely-and-society-
created-role of: a daughter,
wife, mother and a builder.

World should know,

when girls do better-
world will be better;
humankind should remember,
these individuals were once girls:
Sirimavo Bandaranaike,
a three-time prime minister
in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
Indira Gandhi, a two-time 
prime minister of India,
Golda Meir,
Israelis' prime minister at
a critical time, and 
Elisabeth Domitien.

Margaret Thatcher,
the iron lady, who redefined
United kingdom and reshaped
Europe;
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo,
Dame Eugenia Charles,
Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Benazir Bhutto,
Khaleda Zia, Edith Cresson,
Sylvie Kinigi, Agathe Uwilingiyimana,
Corazon Aquino, Angela Merkel;
and many more in different fields
that have made humankind proud.

Let our girls live,

give them education,
challenge and task them,
create a level playing field
for them with male children,
give them same tools like male
folks to work with;
watch over them and
wait for tomorrow’s harvest.

Once more, let our girls LIVE.

As World Remembers Teachers:

As World Remembers Teachers:

Worldwide teachers do same job,

build nations through intellectual
development,
worldwide they suffer same fate,
belong to the league of least
paid professions.

Barely  do they recognized them,

mostly at risk-as drug-damaged
minds-turn classrooms into
execution yards;
globally, despotic regimes-
declare them a threat-
every time rewarded
with disappearance.

Regardless, they have

remained doughty and intrepid,
while their commitment to serve
humanity knows no bounds;
by means of tripartite role:
discovery, training, and
development,
teachers cultivate and nurture,
mind.

Through a complex web of  

multiple tasks
teachers-around the globe
re-create the world of mankind

Like its seven-letter-name

T-E-A-C-H-E-R,
teachers perform  the seven
essential roles,
beginning with lesson plans-
the un-seen power behind
enlightenment,
which creates a connection
between impacting knowledge-
for mental, physical, moral, and
spiritual development,
upon which human society
develops.

Measuring students’

development-by means of
evaluation, assessment, and
grading;
providing support through
administrative duties
of reward and discipline,
teachers continually creating
permanent impressions on
minds.

“Shadow education” or tutoring

a private supplementary help or
watch over them-teachers now add-
to conventional assignments,
through counselling and mentoring,
more help teachers give in areas of
weakness and deficiency.

World teachers, as you:

Train and Educate,
give Attention to the needy,
provide Care to those under
your watch,
Help discovering and nurturing,
Enlightening human souls, and
continually Redirecting inexperienced
and young ones to chart a new course;
The world of humankind say: Thank You,
to All Teachers around the Globe.

Make Them Cry No More.

 Make Them Cry No More:

When I remember those

painful nine months journey-
discomforts of those
three hundred days-
when I recall several hours
in labor room-
the house-of-torture-
when I look at the
three-year-weaning-period,
I ask: should parents lose a child?

Whenever I remember the

immeasurable labor of
day and night,                                                  
endless toiling-in the winter,
summer, autumn, and spring-
incalculable daily-child-care
between home front and secular job;
whenever I recall all those   
formative years' infinite
assignment of parenting,
when I recall early lessons and
instructions of life,
I ask again:
should parents lose this child?

Whenever I recall the
first day at school-
the joy on parents’ faces,
which later turns to cry
as they leave their child in
a trusted hand-first time and
the baby replies with a cry:
I ask:
should parents lose this gem?

In no time, Pre-K schooling ends,
Kindergarten schooling follows,
like a streak of lightning-
Elementary school journey
is completed.

I remember immense investment-

all the schools’ supplies,
all home works done-night and day-
I remember all the schools’ projects-
books, journals, magazines read,  
libraries, and thousands of websites
visited.

Finally, the day arrives-

Elementary school journey
is over-
transition to middle school begins;
I remember those three hard years-
as school works become
more challenging.

Language Arts replaces simple

English lessons,
algebra, chemistry, biology,
citizenship  studies, history,
government operations at all levels
become subjects of study;
once again, I ask:
should we waste this
unquantifiable investment?

In no time,

another three years rolled by-
like a flash of thunder-
yesterday toddler is now a
senior high.

I remember the community-

service  of a good citizenship-
volunteer services
to immediate neighborhood.

Hurray! Graduation and Proms-

are here-
as a wonderful future lie ahead-
madly, I ask: should we lose this
future prospect to shooting?
Investments are heavy,
pains are much,
emotional scars remain eternally.

Stop Shooting! Stop Shooting!!

Again, I say: stop shooting.
Let our children live,
let our future live,
let tomorrow’s scientists, astronauts
doctors, inventors, managers, and
future LEADERS LIVE.