16 Jun 2024 at 8:38PM
16 Jun 2024 at 9:41 PM

"Innocence is stolen, dreams are shattered." - © 🐝RuthHor

"A life is reduced to a commodity." - © 🐝RuthHor

"Silence chokes with shame" - © 🐝RuthHor


In the land of dancing shadows,
A young girl's life, a tragic trance.
Bibi, a Cambodian flower,
Her virginity was withered, stolen in an hour.

Sold in a cruel deception by her husband,
To the brothel's vile and sickening street.
Five years of torments, endless nights,
Her body was ravaged, her soul was on the run.

HIV's sting, the cruel twist of fate,
As AIDS consumed her, her hope waited.
Cast out and broken, a dying plea,
In a shelter's embrace, her end drew near.

At twenty-three, her life's flame was extinguished,
A victim of a rotten system.
Her story whispered like a chilling testament,
The horrors had closed several lives.
© 🐝RuthHor


Thank you, readers, for taking the time to read and reflect on Bibi's story.
Your empathy is a gift.
@BBB57

#realstory