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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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