A Girl Who Missed the Train is a mini opera for soprano and violin, based on a poem by Shamisa Mawj. Commissioned by Paisley Due. With special thanks to Melodies of Liberation
A girl who missed the train,
Now she is like a boat, under the rain of loneliness,
left unmanned amid storms
A girl whose lashes are dusty from the house chores,
and her moon-like face has been darkened by the oven's smoke
A girl who craves education, But dirty hand of politics has sealed the school against her,
And acid has been burned her papers and her dreams
A girl wanders the streets, searching for a piece of bread.
She shines men's shoes, because she is the only man in the family
A girl whose hair is feared by all, So, they concealed her hair.
A girl who everyone is afraid of her revolutionary eyes
And they cover her eyes.
Who called this graveyard a country?
This is a graveyard where one by one, the young are buried with their dreams life suffers within me,
it is years a girl has been dead inside me,
A girl who carries her own dead body on her shoulders,
while all watches in silence.
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