Dear Rape victims
I may have not gone through it,
But I am a woman who is torn apart when one of ours went through hell.
I can see through your eyes,
Although it is not written all over your face,
Neither tattooed all over your body.
I can imagine the grief depth within your heart.
It’s so awful!
You feel hopeless and depressed,
You’re trying not to remember your painful past.
But it’s tough, and you can never forget it.
You have nightmares from that fateful day.
It always pops ups in your mind, and you need a shoulder to cry on.
Yet you can’t tell a soul because you are not certain how they will react.
You never wished to be a rape victim!
You are suffering in silence,
Your soul is grieving.
Your happiness is tarnished,
Your life has been turned into a nightmare.
And you feel sorry for yourself!
Because you are scarred for a lifetime.
A lot is strolling around your mentality.
You constantly wonder, why me?
Although it’s not your fault, it’s his.
He calls himself a man, but he doesn’t have a heart.
He summons himself a man, but doesn’t look like one!
When he showed his true colors, we all saw a difference in him from the rest.
He can’t tell a difference between right and wrong, no!
He cants distinguish a daughter and a wife.
Not only that, but he can’t read good night stories to his kids,
He perceives women as sex objects.
And we wonder why he is not crowned for all his horrible duties.
You are a sexual assault victim,
All because of his evil deeds!
The horrible thing about being a victim of rape is that you re-live the moment.
Though you wished to forget about the moment,
Every single time, you have flashbacks from the agony that you went through!
His picture never vacates your mind,
Everything comes back like it’s happening over and over again.
And it is so traumatising.
Your life has been impacted so badly,
Your work is distracted by it.
Your habit is irritated by it,
Your thinking is disturbed by it,
Your trust is ruined by it.
For you were not strong enough to stop him from damaging you.
Who would have suspected he was capable of doing such?
When in the she eyes, we saw someone to safeguard us?
Who would have guessed he was evil?
When all he does was to preach the world, I love you.
Who would have foreseen he was bad news?
When all you knew was, you are made of his flesh and blood!
Who would have examined his mind?
When all you thought was he was just an alien heading somewhere.
Who would have thought women are hunted down like animals?
We never thought we live among scavengers that are hungry for women’s bodies.
And I fear for my life, too.
I fear for all “she’s” lives,
For we are in the dark,
Not aware of who is their next target to be ravished.
You are a sexual assault victim!
Who now has trust issues!
It’s too hard for you to trust a man again, who comes anywhere near you.
Because all that appears to your sense is that, men don’t have sympathy.
No matter how much you scream,
No matter how many times you burg him to stop
It’s all a waste because he never gives attention to your sob.
You are a sexual assault victim.
You thought it was the end,
You felt you were sinking in the deep end.
Your life was full of pain.
You started to hate yourself after he molested you.
Tears never left your eyes.
Sadness was written all over your face.
Years and years of misery.
How do I move on??
it’s all you are interrogating yourself daily.
Until one day when you chose to rise and shine,
despite all the trauma.
You took your time, and speak out.
You preferred not to be defined by rape.
One day at as you started to accept and love yourself more.
You put on a brave face and face the world.
You started to get used to the pain and turned it into a strength.
Now the old damaged soul left you because you are just a sexual assault victim
But you are not defined by rape.