Thursday, July 3, 2014

SHE TENDED TO HER WOUNDS

She was scared, she was shivering,
her home work was half done, full of errors...

The clock struck ten, she looked at it again..
.almost willing it to go slower...
The door opened, he walked in, she stood still...

Every filament in her body shivering...
She looked at her mother for help, she looked aside at something...

She shrieked trying to get away, she was caught in his pincer like arms,
she dreaded what came next...
They tied her to the table and then came the lash,
down it came in thunderous crack, there was tears in her eyes....

Her mother looked on, without a drop of remorse; she was immune to it...

A weekly ritual for her brother, he beat the living daylights out of her only daughter...

The bleeding body of her, trembled, in agony which was still yet to come...
Four men came; two with a camera recorded their shameful acts in glory...

She felt her entire body burn, her soul convulse in shame...
She endured in silence, her young dreams shattered...

Her mother collected two hundred from him, hung her head low, and thanked him...

She tended her wounds....


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