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Life of a Pakistani Girl

She wakes to a sight never before seen  
My  
Her innocent eyes are new and clean  
It seems like this world should be full of wonder  
A scope provided by a caring father and mother  

But the first of the blows came as a shock  
Safety an amenity thoroughly blocked  
As she soon learned to bow before her brothers  
And any other man in the room for that matter  
 
Do not entice, do not look at a boy  
Do not reject one either  
Acid or kerosine may deploy  
 
If you get raped  
You should have known better  
Just ask your aunt  
The one you found in the gutter  
 
Next to the bus as she rode home  
Half naked and mashed  
Head bashed in with stone  
 
She was only seven by the time that she learned  
These demons were her keepers  
At their mercy she burned  
 
At an all girls boarding school  
How could she be touched  
But uncle came early  
Picked her up for lunch  
 
Needless to say her parents blamed her attire  
What did you do turn his simmer to fire?  
 
Fifteen years old  
Groomed to look at the floor  
Twenty  
Now a man is arranged at her door  
 
In the U.S. she bears his child  
Miscarriages two  
For his family was vile  
 
He allowed his mother, father, grandparents too  
To discipline his wife with cruelty we'd see as taboo  
No matter how perfect, nothing was right  
It seems this evil just beat for delight  
 
So now as she cares for their four year old daughter  
Her husband refuses to legalize her stature  
 
All in the name of control  
If he dies tomorrow  
Back to Pakistan she goes  
 
Ripped from her child to be given to his fam  
Yeah fuck illegal immigrants  
People shout from the stands  
 
She must like getting hit  
They love to say  
If she didn't  
She would have done something by today  
 
Yes this world is cruel  
But perhaps you should know  
Exactly what the story spells  
Instead of blanketing the whole  
 
No  
She never really stood to benefit  
Penniless and wanting  
Suppressed to the point of mental unfit  
 
Every time he fucks her  
After a fist swarm  
She cries herself to sleep  
With only her animals providing warmth.
Written by BabydoII (Itty Bitty)
Published | Edited 14th Dec 2019
Author's Note
Found out my friend, whom I thought was happy here, doesn't have her citizenship and her husband is also a good friend. I also found out he hits her too, something they've kept well hidden. This poem is just a fraction of her backstory and now my only goal is to stay close to her in case he dies in his job (policeman of course) and leaves her hopeless. My heart is broken but leaving him is not an option, one he has seen to himself by denying her papers. Well daddy, shit happens ;)
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