They took away her dolls to change diapers.
They stripped her of her
innocence to give her in marriage
to an old man of her father's age.
Forced into sex without love and without pleasure
As if she were a being without feeling
she is treated as an object and as a slave for her husband.
Afraid to complain about being disowned and beaten
Husband that don't know how to love because
they were taught only to hate
Those who do not have their religion.
What is that religion that does not practice love?
if true love comes from God
It's not a religion, it's the culture,
one of his victims told me
To whom the child of her womb
was torn from her bosom,
The only being who she loves
The same happened to me
But I cried out to heaven and found help
I ran, and was set free.
Let us raise a cry for freedom, love and justice!
For the girls abused in Middle Eastern culture.
Mayra Santos