I have been scarred -
life has been taken from me.
Someone I know
has done this to me.
I have been walking with injustice -
believing that someone I know,
loved every part of me.
I have been scarred
life has been taken from me.
Someone unknown
has done this to me.
I have been walking with injustice -
believing that someone I do not know,
did not do this to me.
I have been scarred
life has been taken from me.
Someone out there
has again done this to me.
I have been walking with injustice -
praying that someone out there,
will never again do this to me.
Author notes
According to the 2004-2005 SAPS Annual Report, the incidence of rape increased by 4% from the previous year to 118.3 per 100 000 persons. Furthermore, the National Victim Center (1991) reported that only one in 50 women who were raped reported the crime to the police. Besides physical injury, the emotional trauma that victims of these crimes endures is therefore sufficient for concern, and therefore not a point whether is so or not.
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- Rape of Another by CapturedMoon.
850 points, ended August 18, 2007, 10 entries
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Bravo!
Sad but true account of one of the ills of soceity!
This again is another issue to be addressed as often as one can. I see a bit of myself in you...
i hate injustices and love to highlight them when i can. You are a very caring person, this reflects in your peotry.
Great work and thanks for giving me the pleasure of your work.
Slán Dolores x
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Lady Ireland
I so like to write this name! You kept your promise to read my poems - for me a small beginning - but a wonderful past time. I appreciate your comments.
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This has a lot of power behind it.
I admire your strength to come forword and actually write something like this.
It means a lot, I, too, know someone very close who has raped..
I worry about them everyday.. for they are so close to my heart.
Wonderful write.
Good luck in this contest.
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Angel Wing
What a nice name. Thank you and I do appreciate your stopping to read my poem. Wish more of us will do this for each other in order to let others konw we realy care about them.
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With cpic it's easy to trace rapists. A strong poem in awareness.
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chercheziafemme
Also a big thank you.
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This poem really hits me.. Being a rape victim I totally understand the need to pretend it was someone I didn't know and pray that it would never happen again.. All I can say is that even 20+ years later it still haunts me and now that i have children of my own I am very very protective of them. It has been my knowledge that most rapes are from people the victim knows and trusts. and I fear that this problem will never go away. I hope that each and every victim will find some peace sometime in their life. And not have to relive it constently till they die.Very good write Thank you for sharing..
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Poeticanjil
Thank you for speaking out with me. It is so true - the scars do linger and haunt into adulthood. Frans.
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One of the tragedies of life is that oftentimes people steal what is not theirs. This is even more true when it comes to sexuality. I think the sad thing about rape is that there's no regard whatsoever for the victim -- the expression of her sexuality is being robbed from her. All the rapist cares about is dominance and humiliation. In effect, he's attempting to make the victim less of a human being.
Such a man is not a man at all. He's a monster. A real man cares about intimacy, about personality, about sharing the gift of love. This, of course, only comes with free will.
I guess that's why rape offends me. It is taking away what should be every human being's right: to have a free will. -
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ricochet rabbit
Thanks for expressing your thoughts - no matter what the 'theories' say, rape is too some of worse than death itself. Frans
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i too am a survivor of rape and this hits home pretty hard. you wrote this beautifully!
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Devils Reject
Thank you for being bold and for reading my poem - I truly appreciate this. Frans
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We live in a messed-up world!
Girls need to scream out what happened to them.
It's understandable why they do not, though, although that is another part of the tragedy. 
A poem that brings to light the secret misery of the abused. 
Fine writing, poet! 
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Devastating ... the silent cry ...
with its echo eternal and noted in His Realm ...
We can pray. We can do. Without prayers no healing is possible. Ignorance and silence add to the abuse and the mutilation and leave marginal and wounded souls in a dark world of agony.
But: there is Light. And Love. And a poem like yours, illuminating and bringing understanding.
Groete hier vanuit Gauteng.
Myra
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I appreciate your comments. Thanks for adding the Light! Ook groete uit die Baai - geniet dit. Frans
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This is so so good.
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Thank you. Each one reading this poem, and other poems like this one is making a stand for those that have been affected by such brutality.
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Bravo my dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am alo a SURVIVOR of rape and sexual abuse.My father is the pervert who thought I would enjoy it at THREE YEARS OLD.I truly appreciate you speaking out against it.I just hope that one day I will be able to join the fight against it.You see,because of him it took me along time to tell somebody(my fiance).I have nightmares every night and panic attacks every day.The fucked up thing is that the SURVIVORS of rape some times think it is thiere fault when in all reality we didn't ask for it.THANK YOU FOR THIS PIECE
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hurtgurl
I appreciate your comments, and more so, the fact that you are also willing to speak out. I can never put myself in the shoes of others, but I can speak out and I can listen. A vast majority of survisors have feelings of guilt - this is not only sad, but destroying. Perhaps you and I can one day talk about this. Blessings.
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