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The Animal and the Prey

© The Sanniah Experience! (TSE)

By Sanniah Hassan

One encounter
Is enough,
To silence,
A generation.

To mute
A woman,
To force her into
The darkness of her soul.

One animal attack
Is all it takes
To silence a woman, forever

No one comes to her aid –
No one
They all say “hush, hush, don’t talk about it”
As if not talking will silence the terror within her,
As if not talking will put her perpetrator behind bars

Not talking, will not help!
It never does, it never will
Silence for her is like cancer that slowly, painfully kills her
from the outside as it does within

Leaves a hollow,
A shell…

People say “hush, hush” as if that could ever make the pain go away –

Hush! Means silence…
They all mean to shush her
To take her voice from her

Her only weapon –

And make her a helpless prey.
A hollow,
A body without a soul,
Merely existing never living.

Her parents don’t want to listen,
They don’t wish to believe,
Because she is at fault for the attack she went through

Stained her in blood!
And left her to live with the memory of it,
Etched into every cell, every muscle of her existence.

She may try to forget but
She always fails
For she is a woman…
Who failed to protect the one thing
They wanted her to keep safe.

She lost the chastity she was meant to hold till her wedding vows.

She has stained the family name
For surely she tempted the animal
She was promiscuous
She was a slut!

“How dare you?” she wants to fight back.
Do something but, she stands frozen,
In fear and hatred of her self
As if thinking would make her die more

Alas! She cannot stand up for herself,
she cannot – Defend!

She is helpless – She must fight!
She is victim – She must rebel!

And yet!
She is the perpetrator of rape,
That she has gone through…
Because society takes the attacker as victim,
And the prey as the soulless, viscous temptress
Responsible for the attack.


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