It's been one week now since Mom went missing and to say that I am tired is an understatement. Lonely and forsaken in this forest that has no end I am beginning to realize that maybe Mom was not lost in the first place.
Sitting alone in this forest without talking to anyone for the past week has made me very frustrated.
I have walked through this forest. Pierced by thorns, heard the noise of some gruesome animals and birds shipping.
If Mom was truly hunted by any animal I could have heard her cry. I could have hear her screaming when she was taken.
I have cried, I have worried. I have been so afraid. This past week has been an emotional climax to me.
I could not see any drop of blood around the area we were before she slept off neither the footprint of an animal or of someone being dragged.
I have taught and taught and taught. The reason we came to this forest at the first place. The way she acted and the body signs she gave.
The answer she was getting was more terrifying than the emotional torment she has been passing through for one week now.
She dreaded this answer, she really dread it.
MOM LEFT YOU BEHIND BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT LOVE YOU! The voice thundered in her mind.
She tried shaking it off. Shaking that bad feeling off but it's true. The dots began to connect as she remembers everything that had been happening before this time.
How everybody changed. How grand ma and her siblings began treating her as alien. How mom and everyone did. Yes she is nine years old but she knows what was happening around her.
She choked admits tears.. Because the truth is too bigger for her imagination.
What did I do to deserve this?
I know that I have been a good child
I never disobeyed my elders.
I have been a good child, Mom, why? She wept
In the middle of a forest, a thick and dark forest, there sat a lonely little girl crying out her heart.
Now she is all alone. She had no one