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
Written on April 11, 2021
Submitted by PoetrySystem on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 228 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 1 |
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