“ME TOO”: I’M JUST EIGHT MONTHS OLD

A brand new life, with a little heartbeat,

I came to earth with tiny hands and feet.

I never thought you will swallow my sunny day

In my dreams you come, in my thoughts you stay.

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Love has grown into flesh in your heart.

These scars don’t fade and will never heal in my thought.

You are just struck like a chewing gum in my mind,

To my cries you turned your eyes blind.

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I was a sacrificial lamb for your rage on the bed,

You took away all my innocence and left me almost dead.

Forever I’m bruised inside,

But the wounds have taught me to fake a smile outside.

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My identity was drained,

And my self-worth stripped.

Hands which shed this evil blood, a crime for all eye,

But couldn’t prepare hell for him to die.

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You stained me with the ink of your dark soul which will leave never

And my heart is tangled with knots and broken forever.

In him is there any mercy or love?

How can he do this to a wonderful gift from above?

Someone touch my hand and feel the pain,

And promise me it will never happen again.

By SAMYUKTHA R

(Inspired by a true incident where a eight-month-old baby was sexually harassed)

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