Abuse Survivor Reaction To Cologne New Years Eve Celebrations (January 4, 2016)

Protesters marching, against a series of sexual assaults, during Cologne's New Years Eve celebration. (independent.co.uk)



As I read this

Can feel
My anger rising

To the point.

I want to castrate those

Who organized

And executed

This outrage

With a rusty

And dull razor.

Unlike

Donald Trump

I won't jump the gun

And blame this

On immigrants

And refugees.

To do so

Would be using

A sledge hammer

To kill a housefly.

But

I do know

What it feels like

To have survived

Abuse.

Although

Never sexually abused

I endured decades

Of physical

And psychological abuse.

At the hands

Of family members

And those

Close to me.

To the point

I have developed

Chronic depression

Various anxiety disorders

And PTSD.

As these dark memories

Of mine

Are threatening

To resurface

Once more.

Fighting against

The tears

Which threaten

To unleashed themselves

In a flood of bitterness.

If those

Who are responsible

Are refugees or immigrants

Than they deserved

To be deported.

Back

To their country

Of origins.

With

No second chance

Or leniency

For their actions

By the German authorities.


Therisa © 2016




Author's notes: It was January 4th, when I first heard about this outrage, against several female celebrants of Cologne's New Years Eve party, marking the incoming year of 2016. I don't think, we will ever know, what caused these "men" to commit this series of crimes of power, against women. Ever way, these women are re-victimized, again, by the way, local authorities have handled this case, as if they invited these "men" to attack them. Nice going, guys, blaming the victim, for the violence committed against them. Morons!

The following is, the link that outlined, what on New Years Eve, December 31, 2015:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/eve-attacks-women-cologne-stun-154859101.html