I speak for Emma’s demons 

It might not have been like that, 

An escape from Egypt. 

But I wanted to go. 

A shoulder to lean on. 

A dry river to well with my tears,

My home like Sobibor 

What I thought, my fortress.  

Another Sodom and Gomorrah. 

 

Innocent as I was, 

I naively ran into your arms. 

Because for you, 

Love you exuded, 

A shoulder to lean on, 

An ear to listen to my teenage drama. 

That my Mama never talked about. 

 

But I was wrong.  

He tore into my flesh, 

I struggled for my dignity, 

He pushed and pushed, 

As he broke into a sweat. 

He tore into my flesh.  

My innocence he took away, 

My dignity I still cry for it, 

 My dreams, 

Like a whirlwind. 

He took away with his bestiality, 

Then he left me for dead, 

After taking my dignity, virginity and dreams, 

And the headlines read. 

“Girl raped and left for dead.” 

But then ,

A seed of his madness, he had sowed, 

I cried for my future and for my fatherless baby. 

And when I look at her.  

It still reminds me of that fateful evening. 

 

But sometimes….. 

And as lovely as society is. 

All fingers of blame were pointed at me, 

He vanished without a trace, 

No. Society spent a lot of time blaming me, 

That they just let him escape., 

Even the long arms of law. 

I hope it haunts you wherever you are, 

 I hope that when you look at your daughters, 

You feel that insecurity! 

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