Every Story Of Every Victim Of Every Abuse

By Rabani Dhingra

My dreams clattered and melted.

Like ice in the summer heat,

Like a burnt piece of sheet,

I waited many moons to embrace

Though within seconds he stole my face

For which I waited years to chase.

He killed reasons for me to live,

Like a child without a smile,

Like a lawyer without a file,

I loved who I was.

Though within seconds he stole, what society caused,

For which I waited years it all came to a pause.

He grew fears in me,

Like very woman at night who walks down the street,

Like every athlete before a race who wonders who will defeat,

I shouted and I was unheard

Within seconds he occurred

For years which I lived without fear, for him it was absurd.

He ruined every second of his time with me,

Though I ruined my entire life with him.

And all I was a game to him

As he came planning for the checkmate too,

But since he stole what I was, now I was someone new

I had a hidden move, my heard voices which he didn’t knew.

By Rabani Dhingra