Her Innocence Runs Out
The ugly after effects of rape on a young girl
Rape is such a tragegy at the best of times, but when it happens to a young teenage girl or a child, how are they to deal with such cruelty?
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She woke in the morning an innocent
Happy in her world as a participant,
Too young to experience agonising pain
By a man totally evil and insane.
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She was left battered and bruised
Her feelings absolutely confused,
The word has since spread about
She's left to deal with the fallout.
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Her friends are now all estranged
Though they say nothing's changed,
But it's hard to ignore the fact
That all this has had an impact.
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The men all call her sweetheart
Whistle and make snide remarks,
For rape has reared it's ugly head
Leaving her heart full of dread.
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She can't deal with the feelings
Thoughts and emotions reeling,
So when she slit her wrists
Her innocence no longer exists.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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To divest innocence from our children before they have found their footing in the world is not just a blight on the individual, but a scourge whose effects ripple for many generations hence and undermine the very foundation of civil society itself.
Omg this was so sad! The world is full of monsters