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Fire! The whip touches my legs,

leaving a stripe

burning

across the back of my thigh.



I've done nothing wrong

except being there

when he dropped something

and it broke,

yet I still receive

the whipping

as punishment.



And I know that

the broken dish

is not the real reason

I am getting the whip.



It's because

I am now

somehow

tainted.



It has been like this

since I told about

the molestation

when I was 4.



I still can't

really comprehend

at age 12

why

my father beats me,

but I live with it

almost daily.



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Not a new one, but a good old one.