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 F*ck You Rick.
  How do you not remember me?

  Written by Nova

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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Scheme AxbccxaxadadxxbxxxxA x
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,166
Words 228
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 20, 1

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