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Pauline Morris May 2016
Standing in the shower with my head against the wall
Letting the scalding water fall

Wishing it could wash away my skin
Wishing it could wash away his sins

Maybe when my bruises heal
My soul will once again, begain to feel

It looks so fragile with all it's holes
Where the monsters took and stole

But it's sewed with spiders threads
So it's as strong as a spider's webs

There's really nothing left to say
Accept that maybe one of these days
I'm gonna be ok
Aoife Apr 2016
No
did you know
that no means no?

what does it mean?
it means no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no should not be the last thing
you scream and cry in pain
as your body is manipulated
by somebody of your kind
that is supposed to be your equal.

no means no.
it should not be followed by
if's or but's or why's.
but,
it is.
because no is not enough.

no means no.
it is not any less loud
because it appeals
under the tinge of toxicity
or painkillers.
no is coming from a human.

no means no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no is not a joking matter,
it is not the background vocals
for your hymn of menacing laughter
and aggressive fits.

no means no.
it means denying consent,
it means this isn't okay,
it means i do not like this,
it means please stop.

no means no,
no.
no.
no.
no.
no more aggression towards people
you ache for power over.
no more trying to fulfil your sad fantasies
of distress and desolation.

did you know
that no means no?
or couldn't you hear us
over the sound of your innocent victim
screaming,
                “no” ?
Pragya Chawla Apr 2016
in pealing season, she is a girl of lousy ingrowth
she is an unkempt corner; kitchen sink. legs pulled like knives. phone call her curled tendons; isolation in
grit and fibril      
she is women with wings. this is how we stymie the rapunzel. we carve the ugly into her. we teach her to wear skin like saran. skin like punishment
                        cut-coin the rumpelstiltskin. how she is  wound and string, paper-doll; bird-in-a-box
how we wring the juice of her on washcloth. hung upturned from the ceiling fang; plucked and feathered
like apology. cherry-picked; veins like mikado. how it is dark and she is blind-bat wind-warriors; waterboarded with no hands
upturning the paper boats of her in every follicle; how the flipswitch insecurity eats her like pickle. in a storm
she is neither nor tongue nor limb
just breast, bone, the weight of mirrors
how we jettison when the grief is heavy. abandon. thick, empty abandon.
alone in grit-cusps when the monsoon has eaten into the white, wispy mortuary. dark in hallways; yet pale and slender. she is beautiful.
we lift her ribbed corpse off the shoreline.
we unload the offering like red carpet;
this is how we wrap her in white and weary-eyed
translucent. how unavoidable we become when we are the last hope. crippled. when we look hope in the eye. askance. how she will beg you to look at her with the heart in the honey-jar; torso in tourniquet
how the walls are ripped in shades of askance. how we look away.

how us, walls, look away.
how, us, walls, askance.
how we drip of askance; how the pink flesh and cherry-limb slips like matchstick on brushfire
how there is purple and primrose and bruise
there are some spots on the floor where it still reeks purple and yellow and bruise
how we are
               lousy
                         ingrowth
here.  how we
                                                              ­   try
to
pluck
                             and *erase
Graff1980 Apr 2016
Little boy brown
dusted by broken buildings
smoking ground, and busted concrete.

Little one with a red shirt
I cannot say if it was
made that way
by the manufacturer
or this man made
disaster.

Little child laying down
on a rubble bed
by his little brother.
Instead of playing childish games
now two children lay
posed in death's way.

Little life left
in this mess
but plenty of
blame and sorrow
to share.
taia Apr 2016
honestly, *******.
how dare you rip my heart out
and then play victim?
i really hate the early stages in relationships. everything is so touchy and and i don't know how to act. just so done with dating in general.
Renee 'Wisera' Aug 2015
There once was a ******* the news
They say she liked to eat shoes
Keep on your feet
When it's time to eat
Or you may be the next victim to lose
there once was a boy
standing in the rain
in the middle
of no where
with everyone there
wondering just what the hell his problem was.
The rain dampened his hair,
soaked his shoes,
but what no one could see,
is that the rain
was drenching his soul.
This was his final goodbye
before...
well,
before he committed suicide.
For months, everyone knew,
but time past

people forgot

his


name.

No soul visited his grave.
He was left to disappear.

he wanted to become a teacher,
he had  philosophy for everything.
But no one knew,
because he kept silent.
Kept still,
and minded his manners.
As he sat at the tea table,
meditating more.
The day he died,
he whispered to me,
"remember me"
remember the victims claimed by suicide
Pauline Morris Mar 2016
Maybe God was actually out to get you and missed
uzzi obinna Mar 2016
Could be from the one you love or the friend you trust.
Or from that stranger who is driven by lust.
You could wear a bikini or some so called modest attire,
None of this will ever matter in his quest to satisfy desire.

I am so sorry if you out there is a victim of this,
I hope it helps to say,"do not allow the past steal your peace"
But to the one out there who is on a lustful prowl,
I hope you meet your doom while you try to play foul.
Just thinking
JR Rhine Mar 2016
U
Take one small step back,
and u go from casual
to causal quickly.
For victims of ****** assault, specifying those affected by party scenes and ******* drugs. I'm also directing this to those who are the rapists, those who move from making casual moves on someone to physically/mentally assaulting them.
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