Picture yourself
a young adult age 14
in a simple countryside
As all teenagers
you did not want to follow
your parents' advice
Wartime Korea
Japanese invaders
pick up young women
Train ride unknown
destination - killings fields
get dumped - humped
A mattress - a uniform
condoms reused
abused hourly
Very little to eat
eventually some meat
a co-teen who did not obey
Being beaten - assaulted
hourly by hundreds
venereal diseases
Blamed for not co-
operating - some took
opium to cope
Finally the oppressors
left and tried to
conceal the covert
How can the teens
live with what was
done to their souls?
On reading about Korean comfort
women in a poignant book
about the life of teenager in
that "predicament"
"Flutter, flutter Butterfly"
by Minhee Eun
Dedicated to all comfort women
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