<p>PRESENT: Why didn't you speak out?</p><p></p><p>PAST: I did.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: To whom did you tell?</p><p></p><p>PAST: I told them, all the people I looked up to, I told them all.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: What was their reply?</p><p></p><p>PAST: They said<em> "she doesn't know what she's saying", "he's just playing", </em></p><p><em>"I don't believe her", </em></p><p><em>"why won't they, </em></p><p><em>when she dresses like that", </em></p><p>Those were their exact words.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: How did you feel when it all began?</p><p></p><p>PAST: I felt empty, void, disgusted, angry, betrayed, useless, worthless, shameless, a big fool, a victim, voiceless, choked.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: What was weighing you down?</p><p></p><p>PAST: FEAR & SHAME.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: Do you mind sharing?</p><p></p><p>PAST: It was torture and real life nightmare, I wasn't meant to say a freaking word. </p><p></p><p>PRESENT: Cause if you had, you'd get hurt the more, right?</p><p></p><p>PAST: Yeah.</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: Didn't you have friends you could talk to rather than bottling it up?</p><p></p><p>PAST: friends? that word sounds funny to me, cause I know right now you are struggling to understand what that word really means to you. Am I right?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: *sighs* I guess so, </p><p>I mean none of their first kiss was forceful, they've not dated any guy, which I'll be more than happy if it were the same for me. They're still blooming like a rose, their prides are still intact. God I wish I was like one of them.</p><p></p><p>PAST: I guess we're both shameless then?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: More than that, I'm a whore, your's was forceful.</p><p></p><p>PAST: Forceful and Painful. Why didn't you speak out too?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: If the word WHORE were to be a person, I do be the one.</p><p>I can't control it, I can't control them and unfortunately neither can I control myself. </p><p></p><p>PAST: What do you think the future holds for us?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: I swear I don't know, but if I'm to look further into it, I see a beam of light.</p><p></p><p>PAST: HOPE?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: I think so...I hope so.</p><p></p><p>PAST: you know we're still alive because of them right?</p><p>.....</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: True, I want to make them proud, I want to set a good name for all of us. Because I'm about to give up. </p><p></p><p>PAST: would I ever love myself back? </p><p></p><p>PRESENT: No, cause I'm your present, I hate my body, I hate my aura, I hate everything about me. I'm me, you're me. What would the future be?</p><p></p><p>PAST: What does it hold for us? More pain or HOPE?</p><p></p><p>PRESENT: either ways, we're hanging on thin threads.</p><p>***</p><p>FUTURE: *Silence*</p><p></p>