Long Sexual assault Poems

"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...

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A young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out

“If there’s a God out there please save me!”

The darkness replied with silence

But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,

Clenching and...

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hashtagmetoo-  yes me too
I see it    in nightmares-
paralyzed with fear   did I do something
wrong?    will anyone believe me?
I knew something   was very wrong ...

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Too seldom tolerated,
much less explicitly noticed
by Christian theologians,

This historical interplay
at work and play
in Jesus of Nazareth's
recent post-colonization day,

When Jewish Rabbi Elders
were squished inside
Roman WhiteMale Dominant
empire-building denial
of their own win/lose subjugation
defying Judaic empowering culture

Rather recently overwhelmed
by...

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I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl.
My teacher said this is not what we do. Mom tells me this is bad.
They’re wrong....

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They call us snakes. Evil. Cold blooded. Cruel. Why would you say that when learning someone was diagnosed with a mental disorder that was out of their control? Oh, but right, you hear about it...

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I received a re-invitation email this morning. A ‘come on, why don’t you want to?’ note that struck me as odd. See, I’ve been ‘tapped’ for a couple of final clubs at Yale. It can...

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It’s been 10 years since you last saw me.
I’m softer. Matured. Unrecognizable. And yet 
the feeling of your roaming eyes still darkens my skin,
the phantom sensations making me retch.
Your vile intentions occupy a corner of...

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A poem for black hearts. 
This poem is for the neglected soul, 
the boy who's fathers words he could never live up to, 
his lonely, his sad. 
To the girl drowning again in a pool...

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[An anti -victim blaming project]

[“He was asking for it with those clothes,” the officer said, pointing at the black shorts he wore. It was torn at the bottom, with knotted hems and hanging strings from...

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You know what depression feels like? Well, let me just tell you.  It feels like you're helpless, like you just feel so broken, that you'll never be okay again; as if you ever were...
...

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In 2015…
           —In DMs, he wondered whether Trump “Is America’s Hitler”
 
In 2016…
—“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. 
...

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The girls, 
are growing up,
We forgot about that princess love, 
The waiting for men to cover our broken bodies in their poetry love,
We let go of swallowed silent prayers of wanting to feel “pretty” 
We...

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the girls  
He will not let you forget. 
You will wear his hands around your throat, a chain of honey and sweat. 
His calluses grating across your thighs are still carved in memory, 
And...

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They keep us turning down the halls like cattle 
Keep your eyes up
Face forward
No phones
Stay in routine
You’ve done this for so many years now
No distractions
Don’t look at the broken people next to you
Face forward
A girl...

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there are many women who's life has been a tragedy.
we all know that is not the way it ought to be.

tragedies, unfortunately, are equal opportunity employers.
they strike all, no matter what race, creed or color.

think...

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She walks alone, with a heavy heart
Haunted by the memories that tear her apart
She's a victim of sexual assault, a survivor of pain
But she refuses to let her past define her again


She's a warrior, a...

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Just Maybe

You ask why I didn’t tell anyone
What he did to me….
Well maybe, just maybe
I didn’t want to relive the pain and misery….

You ask why I didn’t tell anyone
How he held me down….
Well maybe, just...

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We are on the crux, 
The cusp of kingdom come, 
In which our own becomes undone, 
Our lands, our bodies, 
Shall be seized by the folly of a smoking gun. 

Proof of tyranny has evaded...

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When you placed your hands on the littles ones thigh,
When they saw your shadow in stead of theirs,
When they glanced up at you, adoration and want radiating from their eyes,

There goes your rotten mind misinterpreting...

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I TOLD YOU

I told you that Uncle Danny touched me
It hurt and made me cry
I told you I didn’t like him
You said I shouldn’t lie.
I told you my bra got snapped in class
That I was...

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What the papers didn’t say

We read the octopus is an intelligent animal, I’m not sure if this is true but they can be trained to
play with dipping bottles filled with water. The sinister side is...

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There are times when it is safe to be in one’s body
As in the time of family way caressing my ribs
Baby who lives because I do with such flare
Tiny little feet kicking me deep in...

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daddy long legs spinning its' web from the ceiling 

8 legs of terror, to 8 years of life as a kid. 

monster under the bed hurry,

big terrible eyes, gleaming at me from the dark unknown...

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Republican Vice-Presidential nominee JD Vance’s comments about Donald Trump:

In DMs, he wondered whether Trump, “Is America’s Hitler.” (2015)
“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.” (2016)
“Donald Trump is...

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