The Seething City
Listen to: The Seething City The seething city's grimy warren of cages, is journey's end for women and children trafficked to the trade for sex, day and night. To be hawked and sold beneath slavers' eyes, and passed from foul, corrupted hand to hand, to suffer their bodies’ auction in silence. I witnessed the truth of that silence. When through the barred and curtained gates of cages, reached the gaudy, perfumed and grasping hands of women, of girls and boys—of children, beckoning, cajoling me with pleading eyes, to rent and use them as I chose that night. Without custom, they’d not earn that night, but suffer behind their veil of silence. Fear betrayed their gayly painted eyes, for if they displeased the madam of the cages, she would break the spirit of those children held firm in bondage by her cruel hands. Their lives but a travesty in her hands, torn from their innocence by day and night. Who will protect those women, those children, while law and politicians stand in s