MOLESTATION

You call it discipline, you call it home TRAINING;
Yet I'm the only one who gets all d SCOLDING.
Just because I lost my dad to an unprecedented ACCIDENT;
The cold paws of death seized his breath through such a tragic INCIDENT.
Just because my mum (ur sister) died of a cancerous ORGAN;
You resorted to calling me a miserable ORPHAN.
Was this wat u meant wen u publicly professed ur intentions of total love & CARE?
You said I won't lack any good thing yet it's been centuries since I got a new UNDERWEAR.
I'm frail and fragile yet u subject me to Herculean chores & DRILLS;
With my tiny hands I clean,yet I get zero attention wen I'm ILL.
Of course, I cook d MEAL;
But I dare not eat, until everyone has eaten to their FILL.
Each day, I help prepare ur children fr SCHOOL;
Afterwards I stay back and become ur errand TOOL.
The children wer at Grandma's for the HOLIDAYS;
Aunty had left for Dubai to purchase goods since YESTERDAY.
While reading a novel, a manly figure encroached my PRIVACY;
Twas my aunt's husband, standing before me in total NUDITY.
Oh my God!!!what is this? He said we were gonna have FUN;
I began to apologize for all the wrongs I've ever DONE.
I was too terrified to SCREAM;
I so wished it was just a DREAM.
I begged him to stop caressing my beneath SKIN;
I told him I was only THIRTEEN.
The more I RESISTED;
The more he PERSISTED.
I thought this man was gentle and totally HARMLESS;
When did he become this ruthless and HEARTLESS.
The sharp pain I felt as his rod pierced my BENEATH;
I bled and cried out but he silenced me with a slap; such an easy DEFEAT.
He kept coming back night after NIGHT;
I had to comply 'cos I was too small to struggle or put up a FIGHT.
I tried to tell her, but she scolded me and asked me to go complete my CHORES;
Unknown to her, apart from cooking and cleaning, her husband had turned me into his WHORE.
I'm now a product of intense DEVASTATION;
Cos I was auctioned for sale in the hall of MOLESTATION.

Iniabasi Imehinyang
300 level
Civil Engineering
Akwa Ibom State University