Wall of Words

If you could imagine that the four corners of your wall speaking to you in the most toughest times of your life, what do you think it will say to you?

In some parts of our world today, many of us have been told to stay home amid the threats of contracting  the Corona Virus (COVID-19)  We may not know how long this stay home rule will last, but one thing is for sure, it is done solely to protect you and me.

But have we thought about the negative consequences these stay home or indoors could do to those in abusive homes or relationships??
I guess we never have. Let me share a few thoughts with you. I read a story about a week ago on my  Facebook wall about a British female nurse who couldn't go home after work from the hospital she worked. Chloe will be the first one to arrive for work, early in the morning and the last one to go home late at night.
Her boyfriend had been physically abusing her for months during the early stages of the viral outbreak. She will go home at night writing short letters, asking for help from her neighbours and friends in her neighbourhood asking them to save her from his abusive boyfriend. Chloe died last week  from Corona virus after she was helping nurse an infected patient back to health.
Her last words were "I will rather die with the virus on duty than stay in an abusive home for life"
As hipocritical as we humans become in the face of hearing of someone's death, her neighbours told police they had recently been seeing the letters littered around the apartment doors when on the contrary police investigations revealed most of these letters were dated several months ago.

There is a saying... Becareful what you say or do  in silence because walls have ears. Chloe's abuse trauma was inside the walls of her home. But she bravely put them into letters of words so her neighbours on the other side of the apartment wall could hear and save her. But they didn't.

It could be you or me today. Yes, we should stay home but not to completely isolate ourselves from our other loved ones or people.

There are more Chloes out there. I pray we find them and lighten their burden in this already difficult times.

Kwame Sarpong |  Freelance Writer: 
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