I didn't blame Maryam Sanda when she was found guilty of stabbing her darling. I wish I had her courage. I am in shackles. They used to have roses growing on them before now but all have finally become rusty old chains around my neck, arms, and feet. I cry all the...
I scrolled through Facebook reading posts to keep myself away from boredom, reacting to funny posts and commenting on some. "I will take a leap of faith and settle down!" These were the exact words written on the post. The man who made that statement had found his...
One night, the whole family was watching the television after dinner. As usual, I was with my phone as Telenovelas were not as interesting as Kamal, my new boyfriend. My dad had walked in. My brothers had whined in protest before my dad even held the remote. We knew...
There I was in front of Umaima's house, waiting for her to come outside. I have been coming to see her for a month now. I hoped to make my intentions known to my parents as soon as possible. Little did I know that Umaima would be getting married soon. She sent her...
She was slowly cracking and they could sense it. It made them wonder what and why they did what they did to her. Do they truly deserve to be named parents? Cause the current situation states otherwise.
Her mother inch forward urging Aneesah to move back, stopping her from taking any more steps by raising her hand in the air.
“I pleaded with you, didn’t I? Uncle Saeed was never the right man for me, you both knew but because of your selfish reasons look where you got me!?” She cackled.
She was young; seventeen to be precise, and naive when her parents deem it right to get her tied down to her Uncle Saeed who’s twenty-three years older than her, all in the name of strengthening the family bond!
Bloody hell!
“I never wanted this, I’ve always dreamt of leaving my comfort zone to explore and learn more about life while I chase my dreams. You knew that Mum, you both knew marriage was the last thing on my bucket list but you still want ahead with it” She whimpered.
“Anee—“
She shakes her head dismissively letting more tears stream. “I tried reaching out to you Mum but what did you do? You didn’t listen. It was always my fault and never his, I was always the one expected to be patient with him.”
She shut her eyes for a while reminiscing the nightmares she went through in her matrimonial home.
“If only you know what I had to go through! I honestly didn’t deserve it” She sneered.
Girl child marriage is honestly not advisable especially if the lady is against it. For some, it works out just fine but in most cases, it doesn’t.
She lived through torture, misery, heartache, whatnot for a whole year. Her marriage with her relative Saeed didn’t only physically destroy her but as well mentally and spiritually.
Her parents were so ignorant and demanding that they couldn’t even sense what was going on in their only child’s life.
Saeed or preferably a devil in disguise. Calm on the outside, monstrous on the inside. He deserve to rot in jail for he had turned a once cheerful, carefree, and ambitious woman into an empty broken bottle of beer.
It doesn’t make sense huh!? We assume life to be all rainbows and butterflies then all of a sudden; in a blink of an eye, all that is gone.
The moment when you think your life is perfect and worry-free is when destiny decides to take a big toll on you.
We do make wrong decisions sometimes but that’s exactly what makes us human, but for Aneesah they had all power to stop it and they didn’t, so now they had to bear the consequences.
“You’re the worst parents everyone could ever wish for”
Right there right now, they know they messed up big-time.
If only they could fix it.
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Hello, beautiful people of Arewa, this is a real-life story of Tata. My name is Tata Bala, I live in Kaduna state Nigeria, and am the only child of my parents. I can't say how and when I started digging this ditch that almost led to my death. But, I can only tell you...
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