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    DUTY POST

    When a molester is undeterredWhen the victims lip is sealed

    When observers are unconcerned

    When authorities are unperturbedWhat shall we do?

    If all they say is wait

    If potentials lives are deteriorating

    If convicts have no lesson to learnIf remand homes cannot rebuild lives

    What shall we do?

    Now that sexual abuse is the root of major sicknesses

    Now that 70% of prostitutes suffered child sexual abuseNow that 60% of runaways were sexually abused

    Now that 80% HIV positive victims were victimsWhat shall we do?

    Agitations fell on deaf ears

    No redress, no plans for redress, no agenda

    We shall continue the quest for answersThe questions would one day be answered

    No stopping, no silence

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    SEQUENCE

    Writer, do not change my words, write in EnglishMarriage is an institution ordained by God, yes

    It is holy solemnization, celebrated by men,

    A union of soul and body of a coupleThat is what they say.

    It is to be enjoyed, for procreation too

    My marriage is the exact opposite

    Several institutions, with a man and plenty womenUnholy and enforced by my parents

    United by parents endured by daughters

    My uninformed consent does not even count nor sought

    I feel so awkward among them; makes me cry night and dayA dirty marriage where I wash dishes daily

    Fear of contracting AIDS, the beginning of wisdom,Jealousy and rage I apply caution

    My real mates learn Arithmetic and sex education

    Present mates teach me sex copulation

    My mates here, my grandmas playgroup thereTheir grandchildren are my mates at the civic centre

    Do not belong here but left with an alternative

    Learning how to please all, the best alternativeLiving to be an instrument of enjoyment for old manMy life, my potentials, my future all in a dowry basket,

    Or was it exchanged for a head of cow?I was traded like a slave to papa

    He was even present at my mothers christeningMy playground now is on the smelling mat

    He digs into my cloth with hoe like nails.The question is ready or not, I am here.

    Married to a man nearer to the grave than the altar

    Wonder at the offence that sentenced me to this agony

    I live my life by the dayPlan less, purposeless, reasonless, and futureless

    His daily activities are my periodsA culture that severed me from my future,

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    Relieving parents of their responsibilityCan I ever love my children?

    To bring forth children when I am equally a childThey are brought forth in sadness and agony

    To be trained by others, due to my incapability

    I cannot differentiate between umbilical cord and radio cord

    Et toi papa, et toi mamaYou released me to an unknown future

    Very sure of my widowhood before adulthood

    Abrupt end to my childhood stage

    Enduring sex, enjoying weepingSecretly awaiting my vesico vagina fistula

    Praying daily that night would not come

    Dawn brings darkness into my soulSentenced to a life of perpetual ignorance

    I can neither read nor write

    Although I recognise my father in a picturePeeping, waiting for mate to put my thoughts in letters

    I dictate inner feelings could not wait in Dictation class

    Looking for a writer at my age to dictate my intents

    A child should be a child all over the world.I was made to jump two steps at a time

    You expose me to things I could not comprehendMy duties exchanged for parental responsibilitiesYour burden became mine to carry at this tender age.

    I know there is a government,

    Even if it is a management one

    I have a sister now she is twelve years oldParents are running out of patience

    Basket of dowry or head of cow

    No breast, no menstruation, no developmental growthAll these and more will meet at the old papas houseTo be traded for a dowry without her consent

    The boys belong to the state during the warTo be recruited against their wish, is it only during the war?

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    Dont girls belong to the state?Management government, put age before marry

    Coinage of agemarry is betterMother suffered this, I am in agony

    It is my sisters turn, let it be agemarry.

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    YOUR LIGHT MY DARKNESS

    I bear this pain alone, the pain of deceptionThe secrecy is excruciating

    To carry a cross that is heavy by perceptionThe story of my life is infuriating

    You were present at my conceptionNow, waiting silently for my extinction

    My honour gradually desecratedDue to your lack of self control

    You openly profess to cherishBetween you and I, a poison to my soul

    How can my honour be reprieved?

    When you continue your secret desecration

    I cry to sleep, I fear to wakeYour presence a piercing dagger to my heart

    The small secret world, a solace to my war

    Your utterances venom to my soulMother cannot see though very naive

    Life is slipping out of the girls hands

    Crude and deceptive relative

    Sacrificing trust at the altar of urges

    A pervert in translucent skinThe revelation about you in little meWill surely send a saint to sheol

    And a transparent soul to recession

    Endurance comes to a halt today

    Listen to the little secret on airRead your acts in the dailies

    You opened me up, I open up todayThe gate opened for you time to eat beans

    End of impunity

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    THE CONTRIBUTION

    I was wailingNo one

    Pacified me

    When a victimRescue mission

    Arrived late

    During the war

    Social workersRaped Me

    As a refugeeMy body

    Paid for meal

    With rebels

    My fleshPaid the price

    When

    I

    Die

    Do notDonate

    A dollar

    Donate

    AGrave

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    CHARACTERIZATION

    There shall be a role callYour name inscribed on the innocent grave

    Written in ashes on dead potentials resting placesCovered by the uncontrollable burning coal of lust

    Your name shall not be written in goldFor you are perpetrators of evil deeds

    You force a lad into a canal of lifeCompelled him to watch your mirror of indecency

    Engagement in lustful exposureMasterminding kid porno and sexual expose

    Your name is sprinkled in ashes

    Fall in line on time

    You who coerced an underageInappropriate brushing, unlawful caressing

    Evil deeds done in darkness

    All with unsuspecting lassesYou are sentenced to a chance of repentance

    Your choice was eternal damnation

    The secrecy of the acts

    Recorded by invisible cameras

    Relayed with unseen projectorsYour acts were transmitted liveBy the defender of the defenceless

    Why the victims start while the acts end

    For torturing a pure soul and conscience

    Raping them in the presence of unsuspecting parentsHarvesting thorns and thistles

    Offenders in uniform tagged defendersSecretly and threaten, destroying the defenceless

    You have your rewards

    Thus goes the first judgment

    For defecating in the holy sanctuariesOpening fire on budding potentials

    Splashing blood on emerging stars

    You are turned to perpetual ashYour time up be prepared, first be unkitted

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    The hypocritical aid workers

    Spreading AIDS like wildfireExchanging contributed aids with rape

    Clouds can no longer cover thy acts

    You are already turned to ashes

    The lass is weeping, the lad is sobbingContinuously you wallow in shows

    Shows o hero, shows of power, show of shame

    Exploration of energy on boneless creaturesStand for all viewers to record your face

    The deed is open, the cloud is gone

    Your mother is here present

    Continue in her presence, nurture meets natureThe world is watching continue in your act

    My lord awaits your demonstrationsYour prowess with acts of threats

    Watched by that judge, viewed by the conscience

    Your threats before the deeds

    Your gifts at the vow for revelationAll placed at the majestys feet

    As we unravel the unsavoury deedsThis is my lordships verdict

    Every child shall flee at your appearanceYour death a colossal waste

    Your living: a perpetual reminderHenceforth your conscience is withdrawn

    For it shall continually work against your stands

    And your peace of mind substituted with fearWhile your goal shall be to be upright

    Your heart shall undergo continuous racing

    Women shall escape like slippery okra from your handInnocence shall elude youTill you repent genuinely in sackcloth

    Tearfully, genuinely in true convictionUndoubtedly in heavenly ashes: Court Arise!

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    BECKON

    Raped, battered and bitter

    Feelings is of rejection and humiliation

    They say it is ----------- disorderI feel dirty, used and spent

    Nobody to turn to except me

    There are choices for me

    To live or to die, that is the questionTo die and not to relive those moments

    Agonizing, traumatizing and killingLiving in my lonely and empty world

    Nightmares the ruler of my new lifeThe rapist left a message

    You demanded for it!I was sentenced before the judgment day

    Why me? Why me? Why me?

    Do I have the right to be me?

    Do I have the right of choice?Can I choose who to or not to touch me?

    Can I have a fair hearing?Who do I turn to?

    Where did I go wrong?Who do I offend?

    Who can I talk to?Where do I go from here?

    Respond to the voice of my cry?

    No answers to thousands of questions

    Questions, questions begging for answersMy big secret is driving me crazy

    My attacker is now a freemanA rapist let loose

    How can you empathize with me?When all you do is ask questions again

    How did he do it? Where did he do it?Reliving my nightmares in sentences

    Or is it the open up and let me see?

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    And you called out, my dear come

    Neither your fault nor your makingShe stretched the hand of love

    I grabbed it in pain but relief came

    She pulled me out of the mud

    Laying my head on her shoulderReceiving love,Solace and relief

    A needed succour in time of agony

    My proceeds of healing and cleansingA chance to live my life to the fullest

    She says, this problem must not linger

    Normal to feel ashamed and embarrassed

    Now better to talk my way into my healingI got the power to move on

    Life is a gift, I must never loose it.

    Talking about it now is soothing to my soulThe idea refreshed my body now

    The support catapulted me, I came out better

    I felt trauma syndrome and move onBelieving that, yes life is a precious gift.

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    NO ONE ELSE

    Today I am in the room againMy daddy is doing it again

    I begged again and againBut he showed me the gains

    My mother is innocently knitting

    My brothers in the dining

    And I, am hittingHitting the bed

    This is my story

    An adult before being a girl

    Raped and reaped by daddyMummy always engrossed in her knitting

    Daddy says it is my duty

    To ravage my little body

    I must not reveal our little secretBecause the gods will kill me

    Who will believe my story?

    Father and daughter, who helps?

    Sleepless nights and fearful days

    And I call you my father!

    I came to this world before my time

    Who do I tell it was daddy?My friends say it is incest

    I dare not say I am the victim

    Everybody says it is an abomination

    My daddy believes it is divinationI want to believe that it is my imagination

    I will soon awake to the realization

    I want to reveal my little secret

    Will you believe me?Will you save me from my daddy?

    I want to escape from my daddy

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    Speak out little darling, help is near

    Keep no such secretWe will follow you all the way

    Your healing has come

    Daddy in his daughter is a taboo

    Come out of incest, God loves youThe apple of His eyes

    Why will he then kill you?

    Daddy needs the healing process

    He is sick, keeping mute will kill himHelp yourself come out clean and refreshed

    You are not alone

    We are here with you

    Help is not far awayStretch the hand, we are always near

    We will grab you, you are not alone.

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    MY TRAY

    Mama sent us on hawking spreeNot knowing she is making us preyEverybody needs to pray

    For we are now the game to play

    We hawk vegetablesUncle called us that he is able

    In obedience, trays placed on table

    And he starts with his fables

    Doggy doggy was watching a playInnocently we joined them in this place

    Not knowing we are the target of this race

    Our innocence is needed for a raise

    Excitedly he handed two pounds to meA weeks hawking sales, given to me

    Jumping happily into doggies arms

    As it dugs into my time

    Life is ruined, my time is spent

    Few minutes the money is spentWhile I spend the rest of my days

    In secrecy with uncles dog

    My narration is strange and uglyBut this ordeal is not strange to us

    We keep our deals to ourselvesWho will believe I lay with dogs

    I am the victim and the only witnessHe is the rich and the perpetrator

    Mama, the ignoramus and the spenderThe world a container that cannot contain our story

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    EXPERIENCE

    Standing by his car was the beginning of the journey

    He was so charming and ready to please meHis words were captivating and endearing

    The invitation not a surprise but mamas advice supersedesAs I walk away with his smiles plastered on my heart

    Lonely, reading and thinking, his smiles left a markIs it a mirage? Is he real? But education is supreme

    Focus on the road mama reiterates, but his wordsHis promises and his actions they contradict mamas words

    Tread softly she said, but his words makes my heart race

    Sick on my wooden bed, he came with smiles and sweets

    Begging to allow the transference of sicknessMy incapacitation hurts his heart, what incomparable love

    That a man should be ready to die for me Oh dear meTears blurred my vision as his words sank into my heart

    The visit changed my perception about mamas ideasWhole and hearty, I accepted his invitation

    Paying the visit was a first time secret from mamaTo the church was the farewell, in his shop I headed

    Love was what I thought was on display, hand in hand.

    A cup of water and a bottle of beer, the end of smiles

    Beautiful smiles turned into slaps. Quick successionsThe floor was the next point of call, vision blurred

    Twinkling of an eye my cloth tore my life turned

    He had his way thrice to his inordinate satisfactions

    No farewell as I gathered my tattered ragsWhere do I go from here, brought the reality of my action

    The world spins as the flashbacks bring memoriesMama waiting expecting the grace from Reverend father FrancisThe grace has turned to grabs as she drags the clothing

    Who did this to my daughter, tears roll like thunder?

    My mouth was gum still murmuring inaudible soundsYou asked for it was her confirmation of his words

    How come they speak the same language?

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    Mama and the perpetrator, he was a fiend and mama?

    Mama, why did I forget your ideas? Your archaic viewsNot all men are like fiend, but this is an eye opener

    Silence is the friend of my fiend, a loop must break

    Innocent girls are victims; my fiend will face the lawThe lawyers are novice, their questions are daggers.

    Court, arise: what were you doing in fiends place?

    How did you know you were raped? Substantiate

    The evidence is rejected because the blood cannot be provedGoatees blood or fowls? Humiliation and counter humiliation

    A mistake has been made, the process is simple they say.

    Lack of substantial evidence sets fiend free

    To a victim, the correct procedure: learn from meTo the police station, endure the interrogation

    Obtain the report form, identify the recognized hospitalCheck in for medical examination, make a copy of report

    To the police station again, submit the copy of report

    Keep the original of the report, go home take care

    Medication is compulsory, follow the doctors adviceVoluntary counselling is essential, do not forget

    HIV testing is a must, perpetrators status is unknown.

    Learn from me. Everyman is innocent except convictedMamas advice though archaic can save in time of troubleAnother mans wisdom saved the elders from being tagged mad

    Fiend would meet his match if we all unite to fightThe right of women and children are rights too!

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    THE END

    Everyone says it is endemic, yet burrowing deep

    An evil perpetrated by close allyPresently, it has taken a new leap

    Transcending into a global issue generally

    Today, yes the victim is my child

    Tomorrow, it may be your wardIn togetherness we build a shield

    To protect this dying world

    The generations unborn at risk

    Contemporaries lives are unhealthySurvivors potentials become brisk

    Perpetrators swim in nations wealth

    Victims are keeping muteAt your quarters, there is silence

    Abusers are becoming brutes

    Pretending, progressing in your presence

    Charged and convicted yet living in luxuryOf what use is this prison?

    Survivors future lived in penuryStill we cannot reason

    Of what value again is a life lived in depression?What use is a life in agony?

    Why not let us be in retrospection

    Put a full stop to this irony

    Come together, reason togetherLaw breakers, law makers, policy makers

    Conclude on ways on how to give herYes! Give her the original plan from her creator

    Appointed posts are opportunity to serveVictims lives are in jeopardy

    You now have the chance to preservePosterity will confirm your paddy

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    High time we stopped the silenceUnited we wage the war

    Less evil reign in everyones conscience

    And child sexual abuse becomes a cankerworm

    Stop the silence, voice outThe child, the world, the future

    All becoming healthy layouts

    Our tomorrow becomes well structured

    Stop your silence, make headwayPerpetrators are not ghosts

    Victims make bridges and build highway

    Lastly and happily we make the toast

    Perpetrators thrive in silenceVictims connive with silence

    Policy makers enjoy this silenceBut we all proclaim, stop the silence

    Dedicated to Stop the Silence

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    FORWARD MARCH

    War against perpetrators all women and children say

    Away with children molesters and to jail all hailThe united method with the whole populace the only way

    The law is on our sides we all assemble and jointly prayThat all women and children are no longer preys

    Listen to children and women who with one voice imploreThat the government of every country should deplore

    And total combatant of words and action be employedTo fight against child pornography and unfold all ploy

    To turn our children to untimely adult and sex toys

    Singular efforts by interested individual avail much

    Support from rulers and policy makers will upgrade suchAs there is little or nothing to get done if all wait and watch

    The law enforcement can be the generalitys torchIf truly they are doing enough to support individuals much.

    They are perpetrators, these same people we live with everydayJoint effort can eliminate and dissuade the behavioural ray

    So that the perpetrator will be healed from his predator hayThe predator lives in the perpetrator, pushing him in disarray

    His actions can be controlled if he realizes his days will be in jail

    Freedom to perpetrators is freedom to aborted futures

    Perpetrator thrive in silence because of victims fearVictimizations, stigmatization and mostly fear of fair hearing

    All these and more jointly connive to destroy innocence

    And the beauty this is also the end of our acts.

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    TRAIN A CHILD

    Chocolate is for children

    They are for you, eat allOh Uncle! Are all these for me?

    God bless you, I will show them to mummyOh no it is our little secret

    It shows how I love and care

    Yes mummy loves and cares tooI love my mummy too

    And love is sharing Barney saysTherefore I love to share what I got

    Your decision to share is harmful but

    This secret friendship brings mouthful

    Showing them to mummyWill eventually bring end to more goodies

    Alright, I will not show herSit down and let us eat in love.

    Look at this, oh mummy says it is bad

    I must not see it or touch it.God created all good things

    He created this, good God will not create bad thingOn no uncle I detest this

    If that is your friendship and mouthfulI disagree, mummy says no to adults blind obedienceNo adult is absolutely right, this is decadence.

    This is our little secret

    Exposing our conversation means death.

    No uncle, mummy says only God can killIf He does not allow it I will not die

    You are a disappointment, I used to respect youA child has a right to be a child

    All over the world it must be respectedMummy says these are bad: indecent exposure,Using children for pornography, incest

    Sexual brushing, coercion, fondling and molestationI have been warned about your atrocity

    Have all and thanks for you generosity.

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    YOUR WORLD

    Day before yesterday, it was a six month old was rapedYesterday, the turn of a two year old girlToday, the case of a four year old boy that was reaped

    Tomorrow it might be the turn of my baby girl!

    The way they happen in quick succession

    The manner perpetrators enjoy the successThe outcome of our laws and its perception

    Makes me wonder if we had settled for less

    Your life is in your own handsEither believe it or leaveWhatever you do is imprinted on sand

    We are free to choose how we live

    Living a life bound to destroy others

    A life lived to destroy potentialsEngaging in activities that flaw orders

    And make inordinate acts essential

    Why should I ask if it were you?

    When you had molested your own bloodEqually silent while being molested even at youth

    And would not come clean from the mud

    How else do you want us to implore?

    Who else do you want us to now employTo break this chain of this act we deplore

    So that we can jointly destroy your ploy

    Think carefully before taking the next step

    Childrens obedience mistaken for acceptanceTheir trusts you deceitfully used as traps

    But your deeds are forever in their remembrance

    Life is better lived when head is clean and clear

    Secrecy in those acts show the negativityBefore those acts think of God and future

    Stop and imagine the outcome of the activity.

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    GENERATIONAL

    Todays children are queer I cannot imagine their ideas

    In the olden days, it was much better, life was goodYou can trust your child to a neighbour or a friendNowadays the perpetrators are the familiar strangers

    Jet age accompanied by strange innovations

    Daily emergence of new vocabularies and criminality

    What can we make of a father impregnating the daughter?Christen my son Reverend father: his father is abroad

    No father, my daddy is lying, he fathered my son and I

    Yes it is normal; your father is also the father of your sonThe difference is just that, he is now the sons grandfather

    No Reverend daddy puts me in the family way.

    Oh it reminds me of Noah and the daughters

    Nothing is really new but the angle at which we watch,The words we coin for it and our acceptance

    As it is in the West, so it is in the East

    Noah lived when there were no other women

    If the world is filled with more women than menWhat attractions kept my father glued to me?

    In the presence of my never believing mother

    He bite the budding breast in uncontrollable passion

    Bed turned to hell on earth, unbearable yet incredibleIf he cannot have me no one else would!

    My natural beauty, he turned to ashes

    How can I connive with father and mother?

    In deception that the father of my son is abroad

    When he is standing shamefacedly beside meI have no heart, how can I forgive anyone of them?

    To keep silent and rot in shame and guilt

    Deceiving an innocent son that his father is abroadIn later years that his father died in the war or what

    Let the world know today, my father is also my sons father

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    WHO ARE YOU?

    Some people call me child molester

    Others prefer to refer to me as child abuserWhichever name you settled forAs long as the reference is made to me

    I am the perpetrator, the destroyer of potentials.

    My explanation: ignorantly you approved my action

    Operationally, I thrive in secrecy and silenceInnocent children cooperate with this silence

    Due to uninformed decisions and lack of illumination

    These make your environment welcoming and warm

    Abundant knowledge on where to thrive keeps me goingEspecially in that your too busy environment

    Always engaged with no time to educate these children

    Education is light your sage says, your little ones in darknessIgnorant is never an excuse for violating the laws of God

    I love your home mademoiselle, so cosy and comforting

    Where all your days are spent in the beauty salon

    Little or no time for sex education to help the childrenAll you do is send them to uncle and aunts

    Where they pick half baked information on crucial matters

    What of your cute home, my ever busy office schedule darling?Where age-appropriate sex education is strange though essential

    Car spare parts are explicitly explained, in no time the kids drive

    Yet human body parts are shroud in secrecy, this drives me crazy!Strange names given to private parts make exploration easier

    The African environment is well nourished for me to blossom

    With ever blind obedience and unbelievable respect for adults

    There I can easily confuse the little ones that rights are wrongNo child challenge wrong elder, age never come with wisdom

    Their children rots in absolute secrecy and depression

    I will not forget my United States America, the men and women

    A place where the solution to all problem is on the internetI solicit the childrens cooperation through their internet

    I used their net as the dragnet to penetrate into their homes

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    To catch the young, vulnerable and healthy looking innocents

    Some homes are cool and inviting, yet I thrive thereinBecause the childrens opinions are inconsequential

    Which are neither sought, trusted nor believed

    Even when these children voice their fear about meThe parents wave them off with back hands

    I deceive the children that it is our own little game

    Have you ever taught your children the types of games?

    When all you have time for is meeting the deadline in the officeTime for works that must be submitted every morning

    For salaries that would not be enough for family therapist soon

    At the war zones come and watch my incomprehensible acts

    I seek avenue for war veterans to remain adamant to reasonsPlight of the defenceless become of no consequence

    As I ravage privacy of women, ladies and childrenMostly in the presence of their fathers and Young men

    My acts are innumerable: always leaving indelible marks

    In the lives of innocent, unsuspecting and gullible children

    Who are then looking up watching if mama would please detectThen you were too busy to watch these acts under your nose

    And save those agonising cute ones from my claws.

    I saw your efforts, know your house; I do not knock or enterYour head befuddled with CSA fact and figures in the societyAlways an important source of information for children and adults

    An accurate and perfect source of expectation for teenagersLiving a life worthy of emulation and a model for young ones

    You are unforgettable real mothers, how can I ignore you?You frustrate all my hard work to penetrate into your abode

    Blocking avenues I carefully created through sexuality educationSpeaking openly against me in my presence yet I cannot reply

    Your daily activities are putting the potential abusers on edge

    Those actions about mutual learning endangers my life

    How can I function perfectly when at the civic centres?The way forward on prevention of CSA is the agenda

    Ways to curtail incessant recurrence is the first on agendaHandbills, posters about CSA the AOB before closing prayer

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    I dare not forget your alertness, agility and being proactiveAlways prompt to spot the behavioural or emotional symptoms

    The red flags are known to you like the palm of your hands

    Always feeling jittery at your appearance and presenceQuiet during your validation, fleeing at your manifestation

    My pretence has no hold on you; you spot me by my actions

    You got acquainted with all my tactics the more I explore

    As your keen interest and involvement on CSA mattersSet you above your kith and kin and all in the community.

    If they all are like you, I would have no place of abode

    Your involvement, support and financial assistance to the fight

    Curtail my activities and expose my malevolence deedsThe time and resources donated by you prevent my furtherance

    Prevention programs, advocacy and rape crisis centresAre more or less gags to my mouth and future

    No one knows that my death and end is near except you

    Daily I ruminate over the decline in decline in my health

    The more the programs the more I shrinkEspecially in countries where policies on CSA are enacted

    And survivors are forever revealing my secrets.

    Do not join me, never indulge in my activitiesMy life is full of sorrows, regrets and shameEmotionally, I am a wreck; I need healing and can survive

    From my character that my seeds must not inheritI advise all perpetrators to quit and seek healing

    Revelation of my secrets> to parents firstTrust should not influence your decisions about

    My victims parents trusted me than their instinctsTo social workers, I shrink at CSA organised programs

    Government policies are lethal to my system now

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    NEED A ROPE

    I am a house wife who loves her choresMy daughter loves to write with chalkWhenever I am less busy I face my stall

    While my little daughter faces the wall

    These are times she writes with her chalks

    A fateful day, I sent her to write on the wallWhile I face my business in my small store

    Selling, at the same time watching out for her

    Suddenly I heard scream, jumping to meet her

    To my utter chagrin, she drips with blood

    What happened? She could neither talk nor explain

    A two year old girl dripping with blood in pain

    To the police station I head as I wailWhile my eldest son was at my stall to wait

    He had all the gory tales but afraid to relay

    At the end of the day I heard the story

    My baby daughter was raped by TonyShe strayed into the neighbourhood was given chalk

    He brought a slate and taught her with a chalkAll of a sudden the teaching turned another story

    The narrative was done by my four year old boy

    Blame was on me not detecting Tonys ploy

    What should I do after buying her all toys?May be I should tie her leg to my store

    Nonetheless I wait for justice at the court

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    NARRATOR

    About to start again to tell the storyAs I used to do to everyone that visitsExplaining on how, who when and where

    And the sympathy or empathy begins

    Thinking they put themselves in my shoesBut I discovered their acts and I kept silent

    For they slipped their leg in and out at onceBefore itching and pain start they flee

    How can I escape from my own shoes?

    He that wears it know where it pinches

    And they that put the feet to feelRemoves their feet for fear of how it feels

    Your words brought me out of stream of thought

    The hug accompanied brought lasting warmthWhile your palm was placed on my shaking lips

    Brought an end to all the usual explanationsSpeak no words, do not bother, I understand

    How will I speak, when my mouth is covered?

    For the first after the unfortunate incidenceI saw someone interested in me and not the tale

    How come all that have been coming are not like you?And save my precious breath from tales of woe

    And the racing heart and blood from achesAnd my failing sight from an unending tears.

    Professionalism meets understanding and care

    My needed support and strength in times like thisFor the fist time I felt being raped was an avenue

    To feel real, genuine and reality of humanity

    The need to have someone around so closeWho can and will shoulder and shelter in danger

    You took me far away from my pains and sorrowThough it happened yet it lessens my grief

    Forgiveness of self became easier and possible

    As I understand everything better bye and byeWho needs a vision blurred by weeping from pity?

    Or my innocent blood destroyed by self in this city

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    May all your efforts be crowned with stars

    As all children healed shine like stars

    While perpetrators as deterrent are behind barsTo hinder the activities that futures mar

    While we achieve the best and in life go farJust as on eagles wing we ride to soar

    Making us potentials the world has set apart

    For as achievers the sky is not so highAnd we gallop in life on happy ride

    In new world created where we live free and fairThrough your unrelenting effort that knows no bound

    This token is for you as you await a glorious crown.

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    JUDGEMENT

    Even after all what resulted from my ignoranceThe agony, pains, all night cries that followedThe feelings that are of shame, despair and regret

    In all these and more, even about your verdictsThere was a little portion that kept on saying

    You are strong and can survive against all odds

    The happening brought down my self-esteem

    To deny was easier but each day brought realityEvery word from man reminds me of the actuality

    Opening my eyes to daybreak, I wake from my dreamDaily I wish I could relive life and turn the clock back

    But deeply inside of me, I believe I did my best.

    The world collapsed with the wall of my protection

    Exposed, unprotected and powerless to my adversaryThe voice travelled less and my strength ended abruptly

    Decisions and more decisions that could not defend me

    Later on, I became free thinking of thousands of way outNow I relax, retrospect and agree that I did all I could

    Though power failed and muscle became undependable

    The brain befuddled with a lot of solutions and escapeActually I have learnt of the powerful tactics and training

    Read about the way of escaping and breaking free butRealised that easier said than done until faced with reality

    In all these I know and believe: I could not have done better

    To you, if it were you, your power and tactics would pave way

    It was me, and my power and strategy did all they could

    In whatever situation, I am through, with a new strengthA new beginning, a new life, a new way of thoughtCame out a better informed person with strange abilities

    Ready to forgive self and others, as life goes on. Yes

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    MY CRAVING

    On the road to our farmWhere my father cultivated

    The land so large and greenThe biggest farm in the world

    Owned by the biggest father

    How I wish his heart is dearest

    Placing me on his shoulderThe only place I can view all

    Happily and joyfully but sadly

    With the secret grief in meThat this may be normal adore

    Wishing its love with no deceit

    On my daddys huge shoulderWhere I feel the pangs of pain

    Unexpected dip of his finger

    Into my private painful placeThe source of uncontrollable tears

    Wishing father would once be real

    Oh precious father with double faceEndearing soul while all are presentFearless and Fairless when we are alone

    But when with me, you are not a fatherWho will believe my shocking story?

    When I wish it were all thoughts

    Mother ahead with fruit basket

    Brother singing with bunch of woodBig sister with load of tubers

    Who has time for a little sister?Who has a jolly ride on shoulder?And her wishy-washy wishes

    I wish my people be eagle-eyed

    Sharp enough to feel with meThat fathers huge shoulder

    Where I pretend to have a jolly ride

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    Is full of thorn, thistles and painWill you have a ride to know my father?

    UNBELIEVABLE

    Today I overheard my motherInstructing uncle: be gentle with herBe careful with her, she is growing fast

    I am in wonderland with wonderful people

    The strange ordeal I kept from mother

    To avoid destroying their family tiesNow I discovered that mother is involved

    Why are you doing this to me, mother?

    What is my mother exchanging me for?What can be between mother and my uncle?

    I suffer solely in silence and secrecy

    Mother is really exchanging my joy for what

    Imagine the damage to me: your childIncapable of understanding implications

    Just because of trust and innocence

    And all your rules of obey before complain

    I am a child who is alone in a busy worldIn which nature would not allow to reason

    And decipher the deceit in mankind

    Actually, the deceit is explicitly revealed to Him

    Think about the betrayal of hope and trustFrom someone so close and inseparable

    You have chosen not to control emotion

    When it is in your capability if you wish

    This world is so beautiful and endearing

    Yet you turned it into a hell for oneThat looked up to you for more than thisAnd expects the best from lustful confidant

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    DECEIT

    When I look at your eyesIn comparison with your actionsI agree with the almighty God

    For regrets after creating men

    The smiles on your gentle face

    Reassurance from your utterancesThe smoothness of your palms

    The realization of Eden came to me

    Can you correlate fathers fine fingersWith the secret digital penetration

    What of the soothing touch?

    With the recurrent accidental brush

    Oh Dear father, with all my heartMy trust and my innocence

    Do I beg you to lie side by side

    French hug with accidental kissing

    Compulsory show you involved me inWhat of the accidental bathroom bumps?

    Your innumerable peeping in my room

    And the terrible tuck in at middle of nights

    I live in a world of secrecy and silenceWhere mother places finger on lips

    You must not utter it, it is a sacrilege

    My world is definitely different from yours

    How can you do this to your child?

    Who can neither desist nor defendWhile the world around enjoy the secrecyOur mothers encourage the silence

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    SAFE AND SOUND

    The safest place I dwell all alone

    Where neither foe nor fake friendsCan intrude the thought of a childThe precious moments with no hurts

    The best place to live and be calmThe sweetest abode so strange

    In the company of unique peaceAnd I forever wish it would be endless

    A place I can display my best

    Where painful secrets are forgottenIf it is only for a moment, yet in peaceBut then your pretence has no place

    Where I can picture the peace I desireThere I can exist in a world I deserve

    A place I enjoy the rare peace of mindDenied by your ever present deception

    The harmony ceaselessly crave though deprivedCan only be envisaged in my inner mind

    Where your existence is perpetually prohibitedAnd my serenity is absolutely guaranteed

    Driven away from the world of reality

    But I must exist with peace in my heart

    Where mans deceit cannot be toleratedInner being gave the optimism for survival

    A world created by force, though I enjoy it

    I can create even if in illusion, yet real to me

    A place I cannot be molested, abused or coercedWhile everyone pretends that childs world is best

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    PASSAGE

    The mountains so glorious in beauty

    Contrast to the gush of water on the seas

    The sky so beautiful and blue is the best

    While the leaves green as they blossom

    The flowers they bear, colourful in splendour

    As they manifest the works of perfect match

    The sun is shining in glory with radianceIncomparable to the snow in coolness

    The fruits and crops come in their due seasons

    And all the numerous animals as games for life

    The architect of all creatures in His expertise

    Created all these and more for our pleasure

    The creation of mankind is to rule over all

    And these creatures we enjoy effortlessly

    But you limit my existence to an isolated worldBecause you cramped me in a world of dreams

    You trivialize the beauty in nature works to meFor my vision is distorted by unending tears

    Tears of pain inflicted upon me by the motive

    Of your secret closeness to explore my tiny body

    The body you have ravaged in the presence of all

    Yet nobody knows what I am passing through

    Can someone cleverly cast a look at this channel?To discover the secret agony underneath the false smiles

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    MY BODY

    It is a gift that is why it is called me

    It belongs to me, so I have absolute powerOver who can should and will touch me

    I have privacy, because it is absolutely mineNot yours, to touch or behold without permission

    How can I hand over my power to you without fear?

    How can I overpower, when my rein is in your handHow can I reign if the reign is used as the bait?

    But it is my body, my person, my glory and my all

    Millions of us are in secret, silent and seduced world

    If we are opportune, we will be far away from youYour hands, your touch, your beliefs and hypocrisy

    What a world? What a life? What a situation?But today, a reawakening occur and I step out

    To possess, to take control to overpower the powerThat held me down, powers that strike my will dead!

    It is my right; it cannot be withdrawn, cos I AM ALIVE

    Once I was dead, because you held my willpower

    Your power could not hold me captive any longerI am stirred to a new righteousness, new self

    A bright new arousal from deep slumberTo reclaim the sanity I was separated fromb