For all the girls, and the women young and old, who are made to feel less, inferior or impaired because they have dreams that are different to the ones dreamt up for them by others. May you find the strength and the passion to be you.

Why must I be what I don’t want to be?
Why must I change the state of my dreams? 
Why must I cower in fear of my world? 
Why must the story of my life stay untold? 

Why must I hide myself away?
Why must I look behind me always? 
Why must there always be danger to me?
To my spirit, my soul, my mind, my body?

Why can I not laugh out loud when I want? 
Why must I hide all my joy in my heart? 
Why can’t I turn my face to the sun?
Why must I hide in the shadows you’ve spun?

Why must I bear the ball and chain of my roots?
Why must I remain invisible and mute?
Why was I born if not to revel 
In life’s ever cresting and falling swell?

I’m a child of this world, let me roam free 
Let me think, let me speak, let me be me
I’m a creature of this earth, I belong everywhere 
Let me spread my wings, let me lay my heart bare 

Let me be, let me be, just what I want to be 
Let me dream, let me dream, what I want to dream  
Let me walk in this world unafraid and kind 
Let my life tell the story of my heart and my mind.