So... Here it is. This was my first poem after a long break. I write about my experience a lot, so expect to see more poems on this subject from me.

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Take your eyes off me

Do you think I can’t tell

Where they are?

What you’re thinking?

What you see me as?

I am merely transportation

With four passengers.

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Shut your mouth

Do you think it’s funny?

Sticks and Stones won’t bring me down,

But words may forever haunt.

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Don’t you

Touch me there

I did not consent

I never said you could.

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I know self-defense

But fear prevents action

Fear stops the screams

Struggle is all I can do.

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You let go, walk away, laugh

Hours were only seconds

Mommy shares her scars

Daddy says, “I’d have hunted him down and killed him.”

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I blame you, not me

But friends beg to differ

Did you do this? they ask

I try to explain it all:

The fear, the shock,

So vulnerable

Helpless

They won’t hear it.

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“Boys will be boys”

This ‘proverb’ prevents justice

My cryptic nightmares

Retell this subtle assault

Relive it night and day

Still I feel your claws

Yet your face is blank.

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“It’s humor,” says Mr. Media

“A small joke, what happened to you,”

You learn young that I’m an object

Here to serve and satisfy

Jokes shouldn’t hurt.

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Do you truly believe,

I am a stuffed toy?

I breathe, I eat, I walk, I sleep

I am not your rib

Not your property at all.

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This rage is for you

For all who taught you:

Your father, mother, and heroes

For your friends and their laughter

For the melody you blast

For the law which stands idle

For the world in which you were raised.

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Take advantage of the naïve

It makes you strong

Wake up! and see

The damage is your responsibility.

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Optional last line: "(I am not staying in this refrigerator.)" Yeah, nerd refrence.

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