Sleepy Girls All Over the World

Dear girl
Female student
In my class
Sleepy soft eyes
Walking between the lines
Always
Learning
Still learning
That it's okay to be the best
That it feels good to be the best
Do you know that the world wants to hurt you
Put its hands on your skin
Make you wear clothes you don't want
Make you be what you shouldn't
Tell you to look up to fathers and brothers and husbands
Never mothers and sisters
Never yourself
Never
Ever
Yourself
Tell you to believe others
Never
Ever
Yourself
Tell you that it doesn't hurt
When it does
Tell you that it's more
When it's less
Tell you that it's honour
When it's
So
Much
Hate
So much hate
In everything around you
A sheep in a world of wolves
Wolves that look like people you love
Like things you love
Like things you are
A baby sheep
Sleepy soft eyes
You don't know
You can't see
Will you ever
See
See
See
Be able to see
Be able to believe
Your own eyes
Through the lovely blindfold
Expensive
Pretty
With perfume
They have placed on you
Your eyes
Sleepy
Soft
Full of their lies