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Ophelia O Dec 2017
Please put gloves on
before you touch me
grab them off the counter
plastic dripping yellow
wet from dishwashing
I don't mind
the creaking sound
of plastic trying to stick
to my skin
your touch is dangerous
too full of his memory
no longer can anyone
touch me
please put gloves on
to protect you
to protect me
I'm sorry
Alice Dec 2017
I will never forgive
The way you made me feel that night.
I let the monster from under my bed
Haunt my reality.
And that monster was you.

You see
I might learn to move on.
But I will never be able to
Regain ownership of my body
Because it was stolen.
And that criminal was you.
Seeker Dec 2017
its weird.
because two days later i saw you again.
i was forced to talk to you.
as if nothing had ever happened.
its weird.
how my brain can keep its cool when its absolutely necessary.
i guess thats why I'm always crying now.
because i never see you.
so my brain has time
to let out all of its emotions
that it bottled up in that time.
because it had to.

its weird
seeing your friends
and having to avoid them
but they don't know
they don't know what you did
they think I'm crazy
they think I've lost my mind
maybe i have
or maybe I'm just dealing with the **** you put me through
and did to the others

the others know what you did
they don't know about me though
they know about each other
they don't know about you and i
no one knows
i know though
and you know
and i know i won't ever forget it
no matter how hard i have tried to
i won't forget
and now i don't want to forget

im determined
to fight
for myself
and the others
because you tried to destroy us
me
and you almost did
i won't lie
but you won't
ever
and i will stand strong
i will scream
at the top of my lungs
i will cry so loud
i will make my voice heard
i will make someone finally hear
because no one heard
what you did
and what i said
thats all changed
and so am i
i am proud of myself
i am strong
i am passionate
i am brave
and you are a coward

i hope you find help
i hope you get better
i hope you pray
i hope you find peace
and may you never
do what you did
to anyone else
anymore

i am a survivor
and i will stand up for everyone
assaulted by you

i will stand tall
and stand up for myself
because i won't deal with what you did to me anymore
this is my life
i will not let you ruin it
like you did

i will stand
up
for me
and the others

i will stand
and not be held down
and not have my mouth covered
and i will make sure people hear me scream

*******
i will stand
tall
lizzie Dec 2017
to be defined by an assault
no person should ever endure.
it is more than just physical violation,
**** is an assault on your whole being.
scars go deep & you don’t understand how to heal from it.

saying no didn’t seem to have an effect.
the word lost its definition, it is one syllable, a filler word.
so now you feel like you no longer have a valuable voice.
one worth listening to.

you change, that person you were is gone
your body is just a shell of who you use to be.
you aren’t living, just simply alive.
zero Nov 2017
Night attacks,
they sit in my eyes,
forcing me to the bed and covering my cries.

My Night attacks,
cowering in the corner,
faced with the fear of their mourners.

Night attacks,
visit me every night,
minutes are hours, and I roll in their plights.

My Night attacks,
allowed to roam free,
after having their way with me.
https://rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics.php

Listen to their cries,
they are soft.

-Z.xo
michele rose Nov 2017
i lost my virginity in a one star hotel in chinatown.
picture this, i was sixteen
he ransacked my body,
taking what wasn’t his
as i cried
get off me
please, god, get off me
he stained those ****** white one star hotel sheets
with my blood,
which wasn’t his to spill
he told me everything’s ok as i tried to push him off of me
i couldn’t sit right for a week after that
sometimes we pour sugar over our wounds because we think that
we need a sparkling trophy for all the pain we’ve gone through,
we want to make the darkest corners of our lives shine
but the ******* truth is
some things were never meant to be beautiful
i was *****
and no poem i will ever write can make that any less ugly
there are some rooms in this house that company shall never enter.
don’t think you are obliged to gild all your heartbreaks,
for in doing so, you are only fooling yourself.
so don’t read this and say it was a pretty poem.
it’s an ugly, ******* disgusting poem,
as it should be.
Jenna Vaitkunas Nov 2017
One morning I held a funeral for no one else to see;
Laying in my full sized coffin I mourned the loss of me.

When I left my body and I scrubbed away my sin;
Took one last look down at my shell- now tired, worn, and thin.

I'm lost now in an empty hall of a haunting memory;
An in between, my own little hell, of his smile following me.
this ones new- rhymes?
Belle Nov 2017
i feel pain for my soul,
you were always my dream
i dreamt of gold. the beauty and simplicity that would be our relationship
because we. we were meant to be.
i dreamt of autumn, harvesting one anothers minds, bodies, souls.
because, as i said. we were meant to be.
i still believed this even when he insulted me, and told me i was just a girl.
i still believed this when he ridiculed my passions and laughed at the art in the middle of the MET.
and later that night, forcing shots of alcohol down my throat until i blacked out in the bathroom, i still believed this.
he even told me not to. but i was blind, and maybe, just maybe the hurt was comforting.
i believed it even when he did not ask me to do it.
but when he grasped me i was gone
for i was neither happy nor sad
when he was doing this i felt numb
my spirit hovering in thin air
he would be the nightmare i had for the rest of my life.
and then i realized. it all seemed too much.
you were too scary.
monsters, answering with his breath.
my dream had transformed into my nightmare.
i loved you.
but i couldn't afford to stay.
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