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THOUGHT FOR YOUR SOUL

behaviour . He was no longer pampering her rather dragging her through the unknown streets of this alien city .
Soon they arrived , jostling through the narrow alleys barely able to withhold a single-file procession , to a small rundown house ragged by the years of torments of the weather , withered and just about keeping itself intact . The irony was soon her fate would somersault her life into something that resembled this house , the abode of her dreams .
A few days hence , he started abusing her , verbally and physically . And each day as the night candle melted down , so did her trust on reality with it . With each thrust between her legs , her innocence , her hopes , her dreams were chiselled away . Her body had become an amphitheatre of his physical needs where he would pirouette along the contours of her body , whipping her soul to a corner to satiate the most evil desires a man could ever have . When you lose the meaning of life , you float aimlessly like a rudderless ship stranded in the ocean of time . And life hits you hard when it pierces through the brittle walls of your desires and tears your soul apart . You no longer have avenues of refuge , left to navigate through the darkest alleys of life . Her life had come to this now .
Days passed , weeks passed and so did the months Alas ! Her pain never left her unaccompanied . Tears no longer dwelled in those once innocent eyes , full of life . More often than not , vacant and pensive thoughts would pay a visit to the graveyard of her dreams , her eyes . Today was no different , she stood before the mirror trying hard to find a nook in her body that lay spared from the atrocities of that heinous monster . She sobbed through the day grimacing in agony , petrified by the thoughts of the horrors the night would bring upon her , again . When you realize that you are the soldier of your fortune and nobody but you and only you can snatch your life from the jaws of sorrows and depression , that ’ s when you
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