Violence against women

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"Wham!" the hot slap landed on her face,she had barely recovered from the sudden strike when another landed on her right cheek followed by a few punches to different parts of her body. As the rain of punches seem to seize she laid there on the floor curled up and bathing in the pool of her own tears. How it all started was still a little bit hazy, who and what is to blame is far from her mind as she wince from the body pains and aches she had gotten from the punches. She cannot bear to look at herself in the mirror, she felt like a traitor to her own body, for bringing such torment to her body.

The first time, it was just a slap now it has escalated to several punches and some kicks. "It was just stress, am very sure it wouldn't happen again" she recalled telling her best friend who had exposed her bruises from underneath the layers of makeup she had carefully piled up on it. She dismissed every advice given to her.

That was years ago and needless to say, that was not the end of the beatings. Every now and then she determines to bring it all to an end but each time she finds her will gone with the wind.


She gently ease herself up from the floor and find her way through the clutter of broken glassware and overturned furniture to her phone, as she dialed the one and only person she still had to cry to for help and help her get out of this hell on earth that she was currently living in.

...stop violence against women...(and children)...

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