RE: VIOLENCE ON WOMEN | WITHIN MY BONES SINGS: A POEM
And so goes the plight of many women, the unseen, the unheard. There is no safety net for them, no place to turn, because they know the only escape is when they grow bold enough to go. When one fear becomes many, it is a hard choice to make. Society in many places put the burden on women, and then abandon the women. The men abandon them, the children abandon them, and other women abandon them. Where do the abandoned go, where do they turn? When will we stop abandoning those in need. Where are the Pious Religious people, where are those churches whose stated mission is to help, to serve? Where is the government's whose stated purpose it to help and to serve? Where is the family whose purpose should be to protect each other? The abandoned have nowhere to turn. For all those above see it as the abandoned's fault.
I have no solutions to offer. I know of no solution, do you? All we can do is let people know I guess that we are not blind to the problem, until a solution is found.
Deep words bro @bashadow. Society has learnt to ignore the plea of the helpless especially when their pleas are voiceless, when you can see the fear and the plea in their eyes despite their lips saying they are fine.
This is part of the duty of the community; to help those too weak or too scared to help themselves but all we do, is turn away. After all, are we not all afraid? Are we not all carrying our own pain?