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Saturday 31 May 2014

Stop! Think! Change!


After reading yet another story about rape, I couldn't help but put my words down into a poem. Please share this. It needs to stop...just for one moment we need to think about what our role is in society.

Stop! Think! Change!

I'm strong, I'm brittle
I'm independent, I'm broken
I see these eyes glaring at me,
I'm screaming - stop!
Someone's sister,
Someone's daughter
Someone's wife,
Someone's mother.
I'm pushed to the ground
I'm forced to scream
but my mouth is covered.
I'm pinned, they've sinned
Bruised, blooded,
now they take turns
like it's some kind of game,
My whole life in an instant, shamed, deranged.
Is it right, that I can no longer live, because of animals, who think they have a right to my body?
I'm innocent, my age?
Doesn't matter
my vagina, my body?
Treated like a toy
for sexual pleasure
of someone else's filthy desires.
He has no control, he's wild
So are his pack.
They say it was the way I was dressed
I was playing with my friends,
Like my mum used to with her friends
But it's the dress I was wearing,
It was flared, when the wind hit, it lifted up sometimes,
They watched me day in day out,
He was like a guardian to me
He took advantage, he blamed it on me.
I was just 9, but I see it everyday,
I see girls and women EVERYDAY,
Being sexually groped, attacked,
forced to have sex, raped, assaulted.
As I look down, I see, that this world needs to change...
It needs humans to be humans,
It needs fathers to protect
It needs brothers to defend,
It needs mothers to teach
It needs sisters to no longer pretend,
Mentalities to change
If YOU want to live in a better place.