La Femme en Cage
By Aicha
La vie de cette femme est une prison.
Fictive ou réelle. Peu importe.
Elle est seule et dépressive
mais non sans raison.
Bien sûr, son histoire est similaire à tant d’autres femmes.
Attendre.
Comment s’imaginer être alors
qu’on ne peut se souvenir de l’âge de ses enfants?
17 ans.
Tic, tac, fuir, esclave
et finir en détention.
Survivre.
Un hiver, cellule gelée, une douche immense.
Tout humain mérite de se laver, non?
Elle appuie sur le bouton de l’immense douche.
Le jet se propulse 5 mètres plus loin,
impossible donc. Ironie du sort.
Plus tard, jetée à la rue, femme homeless. Femme bafouée. Humiliation ultime.
Il n’est question que de la continuité du parcours vers la liberté.
D’une place à une autre.
Mouvement perpétuel, forcée de l’être dans sa cage de vie. Parlons-nous de dignité humaine?
Et toujours, cette brave et courageuse petite femme
se bat tel le lion féroce derrière ses barreaux.
Attendre, attendre, attendre
ce bout de papier qui lui permettra, indeed,
de respirer.
Vague d’émotion, boucle infernale,
y aurait-il une fin, une solution, une lumière?
17ans.
Le coeur pleure.
The Woman in Cage
By Aicha
The life of this woman is a prison
fictive or real, it does not matter.
The woman is lonely and depressed,
but not without reason.
Waiting.
How can you think of being human
when you can’t even remember the age of your children?
Seventeen years.
Tic tac, fleeing, slavery
and being thrown in detention.
Survive.
A winter, a frozen cell and an immense shower.
Every human has the right of taking a shower, no?
However, the woman tried to turn on the shower
but obviously the water was projected five meters away.
Impossible then. Sad irony.
Later on, ending up on the street, homeless woman.
Ultimate humiliation.
Are we talking about dignity? From one place to another?
Being forced to move all the time in this cage of life.
However, always this courageous woman is fighting and screaming
like a lion in a cage.
Waiting, waiting, waiting
for this piece of paper which could allow her to
breathe again.
Vague of emotions, infernal circle.
Would there be an end, a solution, a light?
Seventeen years.
The heart is crying.
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Artist Bio
“I'm Aicha, I have lived in London over seventeen years. My life in this country is not easy. I am a woman who likes to fight and who doesn't give up. I have a good heart towards everyone. I know I am not alone. I will fight until I get my life back.”