ONLY IF SHE HAD KNOWN......

She is out alone on the street,

with a baby to fend for.

She was pushed out of home,

because she got impregnated as a teenage secondary school girl.

She has committed the unimaginable act,

she bent in to pressure from her peers.
she knew nothing about assertiveness and will,

She tried out what her peers refer to as the real deal,
and got trapped in the act.

She tried to ask  her parent about  sex,

but never got an answer.

No one was willing to tell her the needful in her home,

no one told her about risky sexual behaviour and its ugly consequences.

She finally got people to talk to her about the forbidden topic,

her boyfriend , peers and celebrities on social media,

proudly supported by free sex materials flying around her school environment,

she finally succumbed to pressure from peers,

just to get off the list of naive and weak girls.

she got caught up and had an unintended pregnancy.

Only if she had gotten right information from her own home, 

she would have escaped making the biggest mistake of her life.

She would have still remained in school to complete her education,

She would have had an intuition of the consequences

and not become a victim,

She would have become an advocate to her peers.

had she gotten it right from the beginning 

or had a good foundation on sexual  and reproductive health.

But her only hope now is getting a means of livelihood to sustain herself and baby,

so she can later gather the pieces of her life back,

fulfil her dreams of becoming an advocate

for women right to a better and healthy sexual life.