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IWD 2013: Take The Promise

It's March 8th again. It's International Women's Day; a day set aside to celebrate all women in the world, irrespective of their backgrounds and differences. We celebrate appreciation, respect, love and admiration towards women. We equally celebrate the numerous achievements registered in the social, political and economic spheres among others. "A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women" is the theme for this year's celebrations. Somewhere in New York, activists and supporters of women's rights are gathered for the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Discussions revolve around the priority theme: Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Earlier this year, the world witnessed the greatest movement of feminists and supporters on February 14th, demanding an end to Violence against Women.

Valentine's Special - Lovestruck

Galileo didn't show us everything he discovered

Venus and Jupiter we know about

But the most beautiful of the stars

He kept to himself

I then

Will tell you of the taste of emeralds

And describe the twirling dance of cold, blue snowflakes born two inches away from heaven

I'll reveal the great mystery of how a heart becomes heavier

after its broken

And if you plead with me

I'll confess about how I caught cupid that misty evening

sharpening his silver arrows on the peak of the Kilimanjaro

How I multiplied the length of his laugh as he shot at young lovers by the sum of their heartbeats

to define infinity.

But I won't tell anyone how love became an ink

and inscribed an everlasting song that bound us forever.