rape
deb little girl just five years old
smiles up trustingly while
he takes her in his lap
after a while, an odd look crosses her small features and she asks
"what are you doing?"
"nothing, you'll see."
she nods and thinks of other things,
or tries to, anyway

next day she asks to wear her
swimsuit in the tub
for fear her brothers might look in
her mother smiles and laughs

ten years later, now she knows
seethes from within
glaring everytime his very name
passes through her mind
until one day he sees her once again
and says, i'm so sorry
she believes
but he lied
and now she's trying to hide again

and they wonder why it is
that she can't trust

she cries uncontrollably as she looks to me for help
what can i say? tell your mom?
she tried, and her mother won't believe-
for it's her father hurting her

shhhh.... shhhh...
honey, it's not your fault...

oh, god, how i wish i could take her from here~
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birdmad You say you have no fear
that i could do such a thing
to you

and you are right to say so
for i would rather die
than do any such thing

but if you feel the need to mention it, then you are afraid I could

Why?

your choice of words
betrays your unwarranted fear

i cannot take what is not given freely
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deb and for that, dear bird,
we thank you

i only wish
others
saw what you do
so plainly
...
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SomeoneElse Homicide of the spirit.
And thats a worse thing than a murder of the flesh.
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MollyGoLightly I don't know his name, but I know what he did to 2 girls near the bushes by the performing arts building on campus.
And I can't ever walk by myself at night again. For this, I could kill him.
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lisa_is_bionic Rape. No. Way. Me. 000526
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Silent Bob Unspoken Request
by Boy Sets Fire

Failed coercion leads to intrusion and the blood forever runs
in her head into her hands between her legs where his mind lies
power drives him into murder innocence
on the rack of his devices vices and designs
she will never scrub the stains from her arms from her neck from her legs the dirt will remain as a reminder of his hateful face
reach in rip apart the inner fibers of her soul
boy, you'll never know how it feels to fear the shame
feel free to walk down any dark street without fear
without shame no one is gonna touch you
and you don't need protection
SHE SHOULDN'T NEED PROTECTION!!!!
and you can sit there with that stupid smile on your face
and try to voncince me that you care defined by your power defined
by her body the innocence she feels everybody else contains
it's lost
it's gone but i gues it doesn't matter anyway
reach in rip apart the inner fibers of her soul
and you can sit there with that stupid smile and your face
and try to convince me that you care
defined by your power defined by her body defined redefined FUCKED TORTURED AND DISCARDED
and if he ever cares maybe he will feel ashamed
for everything he's stolen, for all the trust she gave
possessed and broken she cries but it's not our problem
pull down your goddamn blins he will never think he's wrong she will think you're wrong she will never feel quite right
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For sure! Don't you EVER even consider doing this. This is not a joke. 000713
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giftengel no schieße, sherlock 000713
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paragraphstar Every time the word passed before my eyes, i thought of you. your tender, child's heart beating slightly off time, while mine skips a beat in anger.
and you know that if i could...
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misstree not human... she's not human... she belongs to me she ASKED FOR IT she's not real i'm real i want i need i WILL

not human... not tears... she's just being melodramatic... she wants it... i want it so she wants it because she is mine... she's not real she's here for me to plunge into and own... i love her i hate her i own her i rape her...

sssh... it's okay... really... it's all okay... trust me... trust... never again... trust me...
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deb shhhh... shhhh...
it's alright...

alright? alright?
how, exactly, can it be ALRIGHT?
try "alwrong"

but somehow, sometime between
then and now
my heart that once beat
wildly, untamed...
this heart of mine that
begged to just slow to silence...
my heart was quieted,
the only way to keep going
is the strange rythmic pulse
that still beats on-

teach my heart to find joy...
she loves, but she's still afraid
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b0 y0u
l00k at me
with the eyes 0f a child
yet
have n0 childness t0 l00k fr0m . . .

y0u
seek t0 c0rrupt and destr0y me
and
rip my inn0cence away . . .

y0u
suck 0ut my life's bl00d
and
and spit me back a br0ken dream . . .

y0u
can't even l00k fr0m within anym0re
f0r y0u've
made y0ur life a lie

y0u
seek f0r me this fate
as well . . .
. . . y0u
lust f0r me t0 die

y0u
push me

y0u
pull me

y0u
tear me apart . . .

y0u
break my heart

y0u
break my will
'til i n0 l0nger can fulfill
this sick sp0rt y0u've wrested
n0w br0ken
i'm bested

y0u
vi0lated abused me
then threw me away

g0ddamn y0u
g0ddamn me

f0r i have l0st . . .
. . .and y0u have w0n

yet i still deny it
still i run...
...fr0m

y0u?
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j_blue sometimes i think it happened to me.

it was a new year's party a few years ago. i was depressed and drank way too much way too fast. i walked out onto the patio and started talking to somebody.

next thing i know i am waking up in the living room, with a blanket on top of me, flecks of vomit adorning my clothes, my pants were down.

later i found out that i had been kissing somebody's exboyfriend, and that i probably had sex. the only good news is that my but didnt hurt...

i dont know if he knew how drunk i was, or what he was thinking. i have never tried to communicate with this guy, though i have the option. i felt violated, i dont know. there is this huge acceptance of that phenomenon, for men at least. my friends acted like i should be proud, that i had had a good time. it sucked. it still does...

so its totally grey, like the right or wrongness of it. its one of those things that are just unfortunate, and thats all that can be thought about it.
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MollyCule how ironic - five years to the fucking day, and I see the word rape on the recently blathered about page. 001219
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j_blue no irony, only cosmic_regularity 001219
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EECP FUCK! This action deserves immediate punishment. The question being, which punishment is enough to suffice for the crime? Is there one? I do not think there is one. Fucking die rapist bastards. I wish I had the moral flexability to kill you. I would kill you all. 001221
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twiggie i think that at the very least, rapists should have to go through exactly what they put their victims through emotionally, physically, mentally...


Not that this is really all that possibe, but it only seems fair. i don't really know how to describe the punishment i have in mind, but the above is the closest i've come.

i have no sympathy for someone who would rape another.
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j_blue i dont think anyone deserves any unpleasant experience, regardless of what they do.

its nice if they are aware of what they have done, but there is no way of mandating it.

there_is_no_justice
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unhinged some people told me i asked for it

"you know what nicole...you should have never gotten drunk with a guy you didn't really know."

and he almost had me believeing that he didn't do a thing to me...i think he knows that i know what he did. and he seems scared whenever he looks at me. it happens to way too many people. and i sat outside with him stumbling drunk smoking cigarettes listening to him talk about rachel and he said "you know it's a good thing that we didn't have sex." and i agreed with him. and the next day i listened to traffic over and over again with jim's words echoing in my head "how does it feel to be used..." that's really nothing new. and i sat there and listened "she screams from the traffic in her head...there's no saftey in dreams." and i cried. i was balled up in the fetal position on top of my bean bag chair on the floor five feet away from where it happened and i cried. and for weeks afterwards i hyperventilated the tears stuck in my throat every glance i got. you should go to the police. it won't do any good if there's no witnesses. what good does it do to have a big battle of words and drag everyone else into your pain? almost four months ago and my parents still don't know. i hope they never know.
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revenant no one ever "asks" for it.

kick the shit out of the person who suggested that you did. or arrange to have someone kick the shit out of them for you.

then tell them they were "asking for it" by running that festering hole they call a mouth regarding a matter they should never have to understand
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its true its true correction...someone who has done it to someone is asking for it...repeatedly and with oversized objects over a prolonged period of time 001221
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j_blue yall are a tad extreme, though acceptably so, i guess.

i am always afraid of violating somebody, sometimes i convince myself that i might have already, its all so grey. i hope that nobody thinks i have, because i know what the feeling is like, but i know that it could happen.

one of the problems with rape is that it is something generally not done to people, but rather experienced by people.

i mean, how many people set out to rape somebody?

its not a pleasant experience, but i imagine living with the knowledge that you did this to someone cant be anywhere near pleasant either.
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Birdmad Sam treated me like she was afraid i would sometimes.

Always made me wonder.

Always made me hate anyone who could do such a thing.
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j_blue there is a built in fear of men many chicks seem to have. its annoying and irrational.

my grandma is afraid of me. even girls who are stronger than me are afraid of me.

they are afraid of my maleness, and i hate them for it.
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fuck don't talk about it, like you know what it's like. 001222
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danielle im so scared to feel it again..
i dont want to know anybody
just... lock me up.....

dont want to feel him kicking me in the ribs again...
stuffing a doused rag .. tastes like petrol.. into my mouth....
i cant begin to explain
how much pain i feel....

my mind is empty..
i feel numb..
violated...

no one understands me...
i cant feel anything anymore...
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pathwrat you know how you say a word,
just repeat it over and over
eventually it means nothing
just nonsense syllables devoid of any meaning.
maybe the word means something to you, but by repetition,
it is cleansed?
I had a friend, she would run around all the time, saying it over and over
just

"rape rape raperape rape raperaperape
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(i know you didn't read all those. just imagine if you COULDN'T stop. No mater what. You can't stop it.)
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peyton I'm a man. It's nearly impossible for me to be raped.

I'm in love with a woman who was almost raped.. she wrote about it once.

My heart caught in my chest. I'd never tasted so much fear.. I'm crying right now.. thinking about her screaming.. the tears are running onto my fingers as I type.

I know someday, someone will read what I've written about rape. I don't know where to begin trying to comfort you. I know there is nothing that can be said to take the agony from your bleeding soul.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry you have to live in a place like this, where people do these things to you. I know you will never be the same. I am a man. I could never do such a thing. I know I am on the same gender as he</