GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

She plays alone with her dolls Surrounded by four grim grey walls She canters alone, she smiles alone sometimes she even talks alone The latest in toys is always at home A cat with luminous eyes grey a monkey that chatters incessantly away A gun that goes ta-ta-ta when you press the trigger a bear that couldn't have been bigger But still she is alone, she wants to have her way with other children she wants to play But no her mother says beware they are not good children, they don't comb their hair Whole day they play the fool splashing about in the muddy pool And what's more, they don't even ever go to school! But she doesn't care, she wants to have her way with other children, she wants to play She wants to tug at their curly tresses To show off to them, her frilly dresses To play hide-n-seek and chor police too ‘I spy you’ and ring-a-ring-a-roses too Trapped, she stands in her balcony sill till the sun dips into the sea to the full Slowly she gets down from her stool The breeze on her tears is so cool She plays alone with her dolls surrounded by four grim grey walls Dinesh Raheja