Unzipping his pants every night in the room

He made me touch

Something wobbly, something rough

Smelled like cheese I thought

Might have peed when I walked

They’d tell you the truth if only walls could talk.

I, ugly at eleven with

Him - handsome body at forty

Now no more doors left unlocked

“Lick it like a vanilla bar; suck it like a lollipop”

Tasted like salt I thought

They’d tell you the truth if only walls could talk.

Played the game where he taped my mouth

Slow and fast, he went in and out

No wound, no scrape

But a pain I learned to take

“Wear full-length gowns; no knee showing frocks”

They’d tell you the truth if only walls could talk.

Men young and old went in and out

If I obeyed they paid twice the amount

But I, in love with father

Begged him for wedlock

“Because blessed by Allah mine still like a rock?”

They’d tell you the truth if only walls could talk.

Yearned for sex learning what’s it called

Only with father not rest of the lot

Appetite increasing cast a doubt

Sixteen-year-old had up the sprout

“Away you go; you are no more my reward”

They’d tell you the truth if only walls could talk.

Slept on the railway tracks

after his new mistress knocked

Before being picked by an underdog

Now no more walls to talk