Rape Poem by Payyton Egerstaffer

Sometimes words can be daunting,
other times they're just plain haunting.

Some words are loosely used,
yet you KNOW they could NEVER apply to you.

DRUGED, RAPED, ABUSED:

You hear these phrases used,
in a nightmare since, or on the news,
but you don’t think about them twice
because it could NEVER happen to you.

At least that’s how I always was,
naive and unaware
that I'd end up alone and scared,
because I wasn't as invincible as I'd once thought
and for my actions I got caught up in a situation
where I was victimized by his expectation.

To be alone with someone you think you know,
as he slips you a drug to help him show
the thing he want from you the most,
you lose consciousness with a strong since of morose.

5 hours later,
when you awake
you don't know what happened but your body does more than ache.
You're naked next to someone you had considered a friend,
wanting nothing more than the truth to bend.
To wake up in your own bed,
with nothing but a memory of a scary nightmare in your head.

The visit to the hospital a blur,
as a rape kit is done
strong emotions begin to occur.
all you are sure of is that you want to run.

Run,
far away
to a place in your life that was all filled with games to play.
Where life was an excuse for fun.
A place where I always got my way,
and my happiness was dependent on nothing but the sun.

But of course no matter how hard I tried,
i couldn't do anything but look my mother in the eye
and beg her not to cry.