You Don’t Walk In My Shoes Poem by Melvina Germain

You rape me, I scream in pain,
no one hears a sound I make.
You brutalize me over and over again,
my body frantically shakes.

Alone on the highway, with the men in blue,
I was taught you were there to protect me.
But evil’s darkness came blasting through,
when laughter answered my painful plea.

My pain unnoticed, my agony silenced,
no value placed upon my being,
by authorities excruciating violence,
I’m a statistic that will never be seen.

Another woman tossed to the valley of pain,
Walking a bent and crooked road.

Nobody knows where her footsteps have been,
It is only she who carries the load.

Written by: Melvina Germain
Date: May 12/2015