Moment of Rape
Maybe the problem is that
I’m always stuck in the month;
those two weeks that held my heart
and choices captive in two different polarities.
Those two weeks,
years ago, that finished the savage
taking of my innocence;
my body at the cost of my life
my life at the cost of my heart
my heart at the cost of my hopes.
You weren’t who I wanted to love
and yet I do –
someone who doesn’t want me.
He didn’t want me either –
just wanted to hurt someone,
hurt them to their core.
How complete the hurt,
a moment I still cower in.
About this poem
Trigger warning: rape, secual assault Published in Free From Monsters: Poetry by Survivors of Abuse. Western Oregon University Printing.2019
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Written on March 08, 2003
Submitted by Ariel on September 19, 2021
Modified on April 23, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAB BXBXAB XXX XXX XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 3, 3, 2 |
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