Good Girl Beaten Bad Poem by Ramona Thompson

Dark rewrite of the song Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna

Why don't we just set it off and go solo
Ask us why we stay, we don't know
We can't say
Maybe it's cos we still believe they care (they care)
All we know is love 'em even through we get hurt
For not staying there
In the mold where they try to stick us
Self-esteem low and almost gone
Because our boyz want us to remain unseen
Stay home all alone
Till for us they call
Can't be in the club with a freaky dress on
Gotta keep that lady like image 24/7 always on
Can't show too much flesh or we gonna get the belt
It's all part of the rules
Part of the system
We learn early on to play the victim

Pressure on the brain
Feeling such pain
Angry fists to our faces
If we try to slip outta that spot
If we eat too cake or in bed act too fake

Easy for a good girl to get beat bad
And once she let him do it once
Best believe she gonna let the cycle play on and on
She won't listen to reason
Listen to reason
No matter how bad or wrong he treat her
She'll just let it go on and on and on
Till a good girl be R.I.P. forever

He steady flaunt them hos in her face, oh yeah
Leaving his girl home alone
Battered, bruised and crying
He don't care (he don't care)
All he wanna do is keep her broken and alone at home
Won't let her go nowhere
Because he was raised to believe
A woman's only place is this
Barefoot, beaten and pregnant at home
Good only for cookin, cleanin' and gettin' it on
All too often nowadays
We're hearing the horror stories
Their numbers be growing
Chicks being beaten down by their roosters non-stop
Ladies it's gettin' so outta control
Just can't stand by and watch you take it no more
Just don't wanna be the one who finds
Your suicide note on the stairs
Saying this is the end
Come on now, girl
Before it's too late
You gotta pack up your bag and leave forever with me, my friend

Easy for a good girl to get beat bad
And once she let him do it once
Best believe she gonna let the cycle play on and on
She won't listen to reason
Listen to reason
No matter how bad or wrong he treat her
She'll just let it go on and on and on
Till a good girl be R.I.P. forever

Why don't we just set it off and go solo
Ask us why we stay, we don't know
We can't say
Maybe it's cos we still believe they care (they care)
All we know is love 'em even through we get hurt
For not staying there
In the mold where they try to stick us
Self-esteem low and almost gone
Because our boyz want us to remain unseen
Stay home all alone
Till for us they call
Can't be in the club with a freaky dress on
Gotta keep that lady like image 24/7 always on
Can't show too much flesh or we gonna get the belt
It's all part of the rules
Part of the system
We learn early on to play the victim

Easy for a good girl to get beat bad
And once she let him do it once
Best believe she gonna let the cycle play on and on
She won't listen to reason
Listen to reason
No matter how bad or wrong he treat her
She'll just let it go on and on and on
Till a good girl be R.I.P. forever

Till a good girl R.I.P. forever
Till a good girl R.I.P. forever

2009 Ramona Thompson