23 Days Before

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23 DAYS BEFORE

The water pipes, drip constantly, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day. Just constantly over and over again, until it becomes the only sound you truely hear no matter where in the building they take you. It becomes your comfort, your constant. It becomes safe. When you can actually hear it and it's not replaying in your mind, you are safe. You are away from their advances, their stares, their torture. You are alone, just you and your mind, and that constant.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

 My wrists are rubbed raw, from having the chains around them for hours. My body is cold and bruised. Completely black and blue from being beaten inbetween being raped. I always heard on the news that sex workers were never beaten due to damaging the merchandise, but i guess there is a market for a sex slave you can beat who will never complain. I am currently alone, the way it always is right after they are finished with you for the night, They hose you down and then let you air dry, until they come and get you and place you with the others.

I am one of the oldest at the age of 19, some are no older than 6 years old, and they cry for their mothers, night in and night out. I listen to them scared and cold, hungry and hurt. It just destroys my soul a little more as the minutes pass by and i am unable to help them. Obviously our kidnappers have not taken anyone of note, no one here has parents of power so we are forgotten, lost children. In a city that can not hear our screams.

My body aches and my eyes are dry. No tears left to shed as it doesn't change a thing, Not a thing phases me any more, not after the shot my sister in front of my last week. I held her as she drifted off, my hope and will to survive going with her. They took me moments after and raped me repeatedly, breaking me even further down, while my sisters blood was still drying on my skin.

I now lay on the cold concrete, so tired and warn out.
I close my eyes and fall asleep to the only thing i can rely on day in and day out.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

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