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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Emotional · #820699
Written for Round 7 of The Slam Contest (Item ID:554585)
Enough!

The mist peers through broken crystalware,
The mute moon-light bathes her room,
Hurt, abused and sobbing,
She remains,
Sleeping in;

Nine years old is she,
And she has welts and bruises up her legs,
No redemption from her father,
She remains,
Sleeping in;

Her mother's gone for ever,
While she grows older daily,
Days speed by, nights creep on her,
She remains,
Sleeping in;

He invades her every night,
She screams for mercy, howls and pleads,
No witnesses, no clemency,
She remains,
Sleeping in;

Rape, incest, what does she care?
Humanity means nought for her,
The devil rules her home,
She remains,
Sleeping in;

Her soul, tormented, cries out: Enough!
She cuts her wrists and bleeds -
The world around her awakens,
She remains,
Sleeping in.


© Dr. Taher Kagalwala, 2004

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