Please save me!
When will it be enough?
I met you and fell for those dazzling smile
Bonded in matrimony I did, with you.
The smile became feral,
And my blood followed.
What did I get myself into?
I will stay still...
Isn't that what I told myself?
When my eyes got swollen shut
By your punches that never ceased.
When to walk became war,
Yet I had to serve you dinner.
I promised to stay,
That was what my vow said.
It's not me it's you...
That was what you repeatedly said,
With tears in your eyes,
And rose flowers in your hands.
Every time I touch the rose,
I get pricked by thorns,
Even your gifts of apology hurt me,
As I laid on the hospital bed.
Just for my kids...
I told myself to bear it,
Leaving was not an option, I thought.
What about my kids?
Innocent and never a witness to it all.
You are their hero,
How will they believe me?
But today...
I lay down at the foot of the stairs,
My neck at an unnatural angle,
I struggled for even the bit of life,
I knew then,
I should have left you,
The night before our wedding
That you raped and hit me.
Goodbye my little girl, don't be me.
- Victoria Ukpaka
