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http://www.fl-sorensen.dk/pdf/codk.pdf - Pages 82-83.

 

BANGLADESH - ACID ATTACK VICTIM PHOTO

 

 

Victim of Acid Attack - Bangladesh

Photographer Ulrik Jantzen

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TESTIMONY OF ACID ATTACK WOMAN VICTIM


By Airyn R. Lentija

Just as my scarred hands hold these rails

so the tiny drops

of my faith make me live, too.

I, who never asked for this blindness,

The scarring of my face and body that

erased my existence to the real world...

embarassed...

in fear of the stigma and of prejudice

that bubbles from the mouth

of the community I was once belonged to.

I am a mother turned into a baby,

desperately dependent...

I am a teenager who forgets how it was to be a teenager...

I am a lively lady that used to enjoy the company of my peers...

A victim of vitriolage,

I am shunned now...

and relive the vivid memories that lift me

to another level of distress, of such agony,

that my mind almost shut down,

they called...

a psychologist for in-depth intervention,

counselors...

A brilliant mind may give a hand

to restore my damage skin tissue;

surgical treatment...

Yet I will never be free

from the memory of such pain,

such punishment

nor will I be Me again...

 

Airyn R. Lentija, of Philippine heritage, is a domestic helper in Hong Kong. Her life, like with many foreign domestic workers, has been full of responsibilities, poverty, hardships. Many of her dreams, as for advanced education, have not been realized. Her poetic talents have been recognized and published multinational. airynlentija@gmail.com





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