After going to hawk all day on an empty stomach _ with bad slippers and a torn dress.

she came home and met the door of the kitchen locked as usual,she was starving,so went around looking for food,from dust bin to waste bin,yet no food and no junks to eat as usual.

the hunger kept tearing her spine and feeding on her intestines,her life was starving away,so she had to beg for food in a near by house,and she got garri which

they say she drank with the remaining strength and returned home_

To meet her aunt,whose monster was already waiting with a boiled water and before she could tell her story,she bath her with the water.

tears.

Her only crime was to be an orphan in a world where being an orphan automatically makes you a slave.

Her only crime was to be a daughter of a nobody in a state where the life of the common man means nothing.

Her only crime was to be a niece to a lady who feels she did not kill her parents and as such owe her nothing.

An aunty who feels the moment she became an orphan she has become a slave,who must be torture when ever she errs.

Her only crime was to have come from a world where people feed their own children and allow other people’s children to starve and die.

tears…

Her only crime was to come from a family that are only related by blood and not by concern, sympathy and common humanity.

tears.

Her only crime was to be helpless and fragile in a world where only the tough and the brutal survive.

Her only crime was to try to feed and stay alive.

tears.

Dear Ajuma,I can not fight for you,I can not heal your wounds,but I will help you share your story,I will pour tears and tell the world how bad they have treated you.

Be strong and know that help is coming very soon.

Please share and let us get the world to hear her story and the story of hundreds of them suffering this inhumanity every day.

written by

Jacob Unekwu Agada.

the author,EBULEJONU.

idah,Kogi state.

Photo credit.

Observers time.