Taken

Taken

The moon peeked through the spring branches
Spying on bold attempts by awkward fingers
Wrestling with hooks and eyes;
Those four tiny pieces of metal 
were all
That stood between my virtue and your gall.

They put up quite a fight, but lost the battle
They were no match
For hands determined
to take

Desolation suffocating. 

Just look away.
The night becomes a coffin.
Lie still, like death. Stare off. Don’t feel. It will stop.
It has to it hurts so much i want to scream.

But I don’t
Because I’m a good girl.
(do what he says)

The only sound is grunting “…unnhh unnhh” 
It is coming from you “…unnhh unnhh.”

She is leaving these woods with less than
What she came with
No night creature cried for her
Or noticed, even.

The moon was so beautiful.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014


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Date: 1/13/2014 7:59:00 PM
Love your poem - have been in the exact same place - thank you for putting words to the pain - carry on with your strength and writing :)
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Corrine Douglass
Date: 1/14/2014 4:26:00 PM
Yes - I was actually 15 as well and time, writing, faith and therapy heal all wounds :) I have a poem I wrote years ago about it and will have to see if I can find it to post.
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Tess Norton
Date: 1/13/2014 11:32:00 PM
Thanks, Corrine. I hope you're doing ok. :-) That was written by the 15-year old inside me. I finally found a way to express it. I wrote that about a year ago.
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