Time Rape Poems

For all this time, I couldn't call it - rape.
I couldn't use that word, and make it real.
Like plowing a field before it's harvest,
or pruning...

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“Be Gentle..” I plead through water colour eyes,
As your brush traces my blank canvas,
Colour me red, purple, yellow, grey,
Cover me in fingerprints, bite marks, handprints,...

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"The Depths"

From the depths
silence.

Where 
are the voices
of other 
women?

In that other place,
the monsters violate, 
they take and take
bloody all, what they want

the dreams of women
are...

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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...

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You just stood there naked, frozen in time, staring at the shower.
There was just the shell that remained as I sat on the hallway floor...

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My father raised me to always be aware of my surroundings.  I thought I was!  I was invited to a party by my...

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Daddy’s little girl always heard “Beauty is pain” I guess that’s why she wanted to end in vain. Because at least then the professionals could...

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I have Dreams
		I have Goals
		I have a Life
		I have a Cause
		I am Here for a Reason

		I fear my life will be taken away
		By a careless...

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It got worse each time,
But was always intrusive.
Inside and out you would climb.
Until you were fully protrusive.

First time was all hands,
Then you moved down below,
I...

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it's about to hit midnight.
I'm in the bath crying. I'm crying not because the cuts 
I just made sting like mad as I hit the...

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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These... 

These are the days my friend, 
that we thought would never come. 
They are beautiful beyond belief, 
and they are moving fast. 
The seconds...

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Queen Bee

Buzz, buzz, buzz... 
Great Queen, I hear your song. 
Making honey with your workers... all night long. 
Sweet nectar of the forest, sweet liquid...

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Dear Father, mine. 

I ran away from bad. 
I took my children with me.
I found a place to run to. 
It was an empty castle...

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Drifter

Coming in from nowhere, 
staying only a moment, 
and then moving on. 
Friend, or foe?
Hard to know. 
What to call you...
by name? 

Without family, 
left...

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