Analysis of A Message to Him



How do you not remember me?
 I was 15, you were in your sixties.
 I trusted you, I danced every week with you.
 You were a predator, you were a pedophile, you are a monster.
 You saw a young, naïve trusting girl and took advantage of her.
 You touched me in ways you never should have.
 You had your wife try to groom me.
You used my religion as a way to keep me silent.
 For three almost four years you sexually abused me.
 For years I blamed myself, I was drowning in my pain.
 I almost died several times by my hand because of what you were doing to me.
 I was so scared of you, I stayed silent for years drowning in my pain.
 When I was 19, with the strength of my friends I went to the police.
 Six-month investigation, ended with nothing as there was no physical evidence left.
 You get to walk around free, as I have nightmares and flashbacks of you.
 Every day I battle my C-PTSD and die a little bit inside knowing that I will never get justice.
 The words the detective told me still echo in my mind.
 He claims to have no memory of you, unless someone else comes forward I can do nothing else.
 Disrespectfully Fuck You Rick.
  How do you not remember me?

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Scheme AxbccxaxadadxxbxxxxA x
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 11100110 110111100111 10010010010011010 1101111010101010 1110111011 11111111 11101010111110 1111111000011 111111110011 1111011110111101011 11111111101110011 111101111111001 1100101011011111001001 111101111110111 1001110111010101011011110110 01001011110011 11111100110111110111101 1111 11110101 10110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,166
Words 228
Sentences 21
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 20, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 451
Words per stanza (avg) 114

About this poem

TW This is a poem to the man that SA'D me when i was 15, the SA'ing kept going until i was 18 and escaped him. When i was 19 i finally reported him to the police and after a six month investigation nothing happened and they closed the case. I battle my C-PTSD every day, and this is my way of showing the long term effects of SA

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Written on April 11, 2021

Submitted by PoetrySystem on August 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth

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