#metoo poems on Hello Poetry

Kj Jun 2020

Me Too.

I was fifteen
when I said no
but a hand pressed against the back of my neck
as tears ran down my face
he said "if you loved me you'd do it.
you wouldn't be crying"
and he took what he wanted anyways.
I wish I'd known better;
I wish I'd told my mother.

I was seventeen
Dating the only boy I've ever I loved
when his fingers grazed my neck
and I cried
and apologized because
I couldn't explain why.
I couldn't tell my mother.

I was twenty one
when I finally realized what happened to me
wasn't the way it was supposed to be
and I lost something I didn't know I had
that I'd never know why;
that I should've listened to my mother

I was twenty three
when he returned
with the audacity to ask if I wanted to hook up
I wish I'd had the courage to say something
to tell him what he did wasn't fair
that I should've known better,
that he should've been better;
that I wish I'd listened to my mother.

#metoo #assault #twassault #tw #relationships #love

Milissa Yelverton Apr 2020

Left

I was left...
Like...
A gift to be unwrapped...
By wandering eyes...
A specimen on a slide...
Under a microscope...
Examined.
Studied and defined.
Known.
Every inch of me...
Nothing sacred nor anything hidden...
Opened.
Experimented on...
Changed into something I am not.
Altered.
Not my own...
By my own...
But now owned...
By strangers..
With...wandering eyes.
A species that I now identify
With and as...
From and because of...
For the cause...
Unknown cycles remain unbroken...
And...
Continue to grow...into...
Splitting images...of carbon copies....
Until it's the right size for rage...
And.
Thin lines of demarcation are drawn in the sand...
Inciting double dogged dares of spiritual warfare...
And war wears down the soul...
Not unto death...
But repair...
So that the poison dries and withers away like the chaff in the wind...
And wandering eyes are left...
To wander again.
~Say Dat~
April 2020

#metoo #survivor #poetry

Zack Ripley Oct 2019

Have you ever

Have you ever been confused about how you feel
Because you're not sure what's real?
Have you ever been filled with dread
because you can't get out of your head?
I have too.
Have you ever been picked on in school
and done something desperate just to make them think you're cool?
Have you ever neglected yourself by pushing your feelings aside
Because you were afraid of what would happen if people found out how much you were hurting inside?
I have too.
What I'm trying to say is if you think you're alone, you're not.
Take it from me. If you can find the courage to ask to talk to someone, it can help alot

Finally back!

#confused #feel #poetry #truth #desperate #hurting #metoo #notalone #courage #help

pearl Mar 2020

leave no trace

you were so careful not to leave bruises
you knew exactly what you were doing
so careful not to leave a mark but so insistent
on handling me roughly and reducing me to nothing
you called me such horrible things that day
“****,” you said
“*****,” you said
despite the fact that you forced
your grimy hands on me
you FORCED me to do EVERYTHING
*******
I HATE YOU

i hope you burn in hell. *******

#abuse #sexualassault #cocsa #metoo #**** #bruises #trauma #ptsd #traumatic #flashback

pearl Mar 2020

cemetery

he ripped the words from my throat
he locked them away
in a box that he calls a 'coffin'
he dug a pit
and buried them six-feet-under
next to the
grave where my innocence lay

#death #trauma #ptsd #**** #sexualassault #grave #traumatized #metoo #stolen #monster

pearl Mar 2020

cutting board

you are the reason
that i sliced into
the flesh of my legs
and left lines
like the ones on mama's cutting board
where she chopped up fruit

but my body isn't a cutting board

#**** #triggerwarning #sexualassault #cocsa #ptsd #trauma #metoo #traumatized #symbolism

pearl Mar 2020

dog

your filthy hands
           gripped on my jaw,
your grimy fingers
                      forcing my mouth open
                            treated like a dog who won't let go of a shoe
                       defiled
                  ruined
dehumanized

#**** #sexualassault #cocsa #csa #ptsd #trauma #triggering #metoo #abuse #vent

pearl Mar 2020

my fault

my fault
“well, what were you wearing?”
my fault
“did you not fight back?”
my fault
“you should have screamed"
my fault
"why did you wait to tell anyone?"
my fault
"it just means he thought you were pretty"
my fault
     my fault
           my fault
                 my fault
                       my fault
                             YOUR FAULT.

*******, XXXXXX.

i want to burn you alive

#**** #triggerwarning #cocsa #ptsd #trauma #anger #shame #guilt #sexualassault #metoo

pearl Mar 2020

swear words

god, *******
           i ******* despise you
                          pure ****.
       **** of the ******* earth.
do you understand?
               will you ever
                       understand?
                             the longevity of the pain
            that you've inflicted on me?
when you put your
           filthy
               unwelcomed
                          hands on me
        i want to tear away
the flesh
       and skin
                 where you gripped me


                          *******.

un-*******-forgettable in the most disgusting way a human could possibly fathom

#sexualassault #triggerwarning #vent #ptsd #cocsa #abuse #trauma #traumatic #metoo #swearing

pearl Mar 2020

the thief

something he stole
      was very important to me
                but it’s not the kind of thing
that could ever be returned
         this is no game of
   lost and found
       oh, but the thief
                        the thief―
they couldn’t catch him,
            he’s got
               sly talk and
i think he’s part snake
          they couldn’t catch him because
he left no fingerprints

he took everything from me.

#violation #upsetting #triggerwarning #sexualassault #metoo #stealing