Is anyone listening?

Have you ever been captured by monsters? Have you ever been put in a prison for no fault of yours? If no, then you will never be able to understand my feelings. Not just my feelings, hundreds of others like me as well. But still I will tell you my experience, but I don’t expect much sympathy from you. The reason? You will know finally.
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We live in a filthy place packed with different creatures of different kinds & filled with filth, of course. But we get accustomed to the way of life here & infact start to enjoy it after a while. By the way, it’s not just us people who live here, but it’s swarmed with many monstrous creatures. These monsters are literally monstrous in size, about 20-30 times the size of us & exerted complete power over us. These monsters were kind of supreme authorities & we have to obey their orders or face dire consequences. But they never did us any real harm & were quite friendly with us. We were co-existing peacefully & we were having a lot of fun going about our business.
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But I understood that alls not well with our lives, when I lost my mother suddenly one day. Lost in the sense, she vanished just like that one fine day. So is the case with my aunty, niece etc & we were completely bewildered with such vanishing acts. Where did they go? When will they come back? No one knows. Another weird thing is that we keep losing only the women from the group, while the men are left untouched. But despite all these concerns, I was living happily only. But everything changed within a few minutes one day, when the monsters decided to capture us & end our freedom. Then we were transported to some other place in a lousy vehicle & were locked inside a prison. If it was a shock to become a captive suddenly, then it was totally unbearable to be put in a prison with hundreds of others. And they had locked us all in such a tiny space with a terrible odour. I didn’t see any of my friends though; maybe they have been taken to a different prison.
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We were brought here to this place on a dark night & it’s almost 2 days now that we are in this prison. We see different monsters at different times thru the holes in the prison, but they are not doing anything to us. They are giving us decent food & water, but nobody here has the heart to eat well. With our legs tied together, we were not able to move much & the feet became numb after the first day itself. I did not understand why our legs were tied as we were inside a secured prison anyway. I tried to communicate with a few guys around me, but no one is in the mood to talk. They were all constantly shouting for help, crying & begging for mercy.
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I was also in a state of shock & did not like to talk to anyone much. But I was not making much noise, it is against my character, you see. I spotted a wise guy on the 2nd day & tried to chat with him. He was not talking much, but he mentioned something like death, end of life etc. I did not believe him, as it would serve no purpose for the monsters to kill us. They were friendly guys & we were contributing to their life in a small possible way. Why would they kill us? This is some kind of a game for them. I tried to convince myself, but the sudden disappearance of my mom, aunty etc kept coming to my mind.
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On the 3rd day morning, we came to understand our destiny. There was a lot of activity around us & we were just watching the monsters from inside the prison. We had lost most of our energy & had almost surrendered to our fate. After a while, the prison door opened from the top & a monster leaned into it trying to capture us with his enormous hands. Every one of us screamed & ran for cover, but with such little space we could not do much. The monster caught a girl nearby his hand & that poor girl almost died of heart-attack instantly. Her scream was so piercing that I could not hear much for the next 5 seconds. The monster left with the poor girl, but came back again without her. He repeated the exercise & caught another fat lady, who also yelped loudly. The process was repeated continuously for about 7-8 times & I noticed an intriguing thing during this practice. The monster was interested only in the fat & healthy ones, while he rejected many of the frail looking ones. I don’t know why, but this exercise kind of disturbed me.
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Now as we were all continuously shouting & pleading, the hand came inside the prison again. As I was running to another corner of the prison, it caught me by my neck. Yes! I ran out of luck & got caught at last. I did not want to shout like others, but the pain of his hard grip on my neck was too much to remain silent. I yelled & tried to free myself, kicking & struggling. But his grip was too hard & I could not do much. He carried me inside a big room & threw me in a dirty corner. I fell on a sack pile & it took me a while to understand the surroundings. While I did finally, it turned out to be the most shocking moment of my life.
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There was blood all around & the body parts of my fellow people were scattered everywhere. Hands on a side, legs in a corner, few chopped heads with the girls’ eyes wide open & staring ahead. I could not even shout & I understood the gross reality. They are murdering us mercilessly. Not just killing us, but are dismembering us & peeling our skin off us. The wise guy was right at last. But why? What have we done to them? I don’t understand it. We obeyed them all through our lives & gave them a lot. We were not protesting or plotting anything against them & for that matter, we were no match to their size & strength. So, why should they kill us?
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I wondered aloud, while the monster leans down to pick me up again. Here I go... Good bye earth... Thanks for feeding me for the last 2 months or so… Hope I would be joining my mom, aunt & niece. My last wish would be to die quickly without much suffering, I pray silently. The monster holds me upside down in one hand & picks up a big sharp object in his other hand. I close my eyes & think about my life so far. It is not much to write about & it’s been a very ordinary life. But what more can one expect from the life of a tame hen like me? Is it hen or should we call ourselves chicken? I don’t know. The monster is still holding me in his hand & is seen to be chanting some kind of words again & again. Why would he do that? I don’t understand.
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But I find it funny now, that these monsters call themselves ‘human-beings’ & label us as ‘animals’. What a joke? Whatever, it is just …… Something sharp touched my neck then & I felt an excruciating pain immediately all over my body. It was my last minute wish that I get killed without much suffering, but our God failed us there too. The monster did not slit my throat cleanly & so I did not die for a long time. I was bleeding profusely & my body was convulsing incessantly. The pain was too much to bear, but I could not shout anymore. Slowly & very slowly my body stopped its struggle, things started to fade off & then I felt nothing. Absolutely nothing…

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