Drenched

I clenched my teeth at the sudden ripple of pain that coursed through my veins. I opened my tightly closed eyes and was greeted by the pool of blood that I was sitting on, some of it had already dried up.

I don't know how much longer I can take this, my body is giving out but I can't let that happen because I know then I will surely die a long and painful death. I don't even know how many days or weeks I've been here but here but it feels like an eternity.

I would often close my eyes hoping that this was just a nightmare but for every latch,for every burn and for every stab I received it was a cold reminder of how far gone this world that we live in has become.I was reaching a breaking point, the only thing that was keeping me sane at this point was the thought of my family.

The door opened and a man, who constantly made my life a living hell and a woman came in. She carried a bucket with water and a towel and put it next to me."Clean it up" said the man. After everything my body endured I was still expected to do manual labour.

I am Elihle a Proudly South African
citizen who at the weekend before my final exams fell victim to a kidnapping at my very first party at the tender age of eighteen.