An act of the moment?

It's absolutely heart wrenching to see a newspaper article that read out ' A five year girl raped'.
I've always wondered what it's like to have the sexual drag towards someone they just saw. Is it the person walks alone in spite of knowing it's dangerous. Is it because of the so called provoking attire. Is it because they look weak and vulnerable? Is it because they neither can hurt you back nor can go legally against you?
If attire is to be blamed, what has a five year old girl got to do with it? If walking alone is to be blamed, what for are the terms development, advancement and civilization? It's sheer shame putting the blame on the victims rather than halting the catastrophe at the origin.
It could only be another bunch of lines in the newspaper for the day, or one more. The little letters matter littler than it's size to us. Apathy? Sympathy?

Dear grown-ups
I'm a five year old girl
Waking up to the sunshine is all I know
Tantrums and giggling is all I know
Trusting you is all I know
Loving everyone is all I know
Able to count on my little fingers is my proudest moment
Going to school jumping around the street is all I know
I might not be the Disney princess
Yet I'm one to my family

What I hadn't ever known is how cruel the world could be unto me!
What I hadn't ever known is I could be wounded for life
What I hadn't ever known is the existence of sex or rape
I only knew it pained and never knew you had pleasure in my pain
It could only be momentary to you, but it will my nightmare through the years to come by
Every time I meet a new person, my heart will throb from here on
A finger laid on me will take me back to that day
I will weep on the shoulders trembling
It isn't grief. It's a wound for my life.
You didn't disturb a day of my life. You just shattered a blooming life that could have been elegant and radiant.
Dear,
Your momentary pleasure costs a life

It could be a small act of comment or an attempt remember, you are tearing their world apart. It'll never be the same again. It could take them years to build what they are ! Who are you to destroy a person on the whole? Who are you?






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