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?
Written by Nova
Scheme | AxbccxaxadadxxbxxxxA x |
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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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