Faint Footsteps

Topic picked by Kayla. Rape. One of the only things I have not covered.

Every 2 minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of sexual assault reported


Beautiful girl
Fourteen in age
Never once understanding
The built up rage
Running to hide
Fighting for her life
You’d never once think
That something was happening at night
Mom has died
Months ago
No one to protect her
Where will she go
Staying with her grandpa
They thought she’d be safe
Never once seeing
The man was a snake
Using hurtful words
Taking her in the night
Everyday it was a battle
To keep herself alive
Hiding places
All of which found
Dragging her out
Slamming her down
Slowly taking her
She won’t make a sound
Nobody knows
How it plays out
He leaves no bruises
No marks to be seen
Instead
He took her virginity
Young girl
Trying to move on
Nothing can fix here
Her reasoning is all gone
She must have provoked him
She’ll never know why
She couldn’t put up a fight.
Young child
This wasn’t because of you
If only someone listened
This wouldn’t have to be true
Beautiful girl
Fourteen in age
Never once understanding
The built up rage

Author's Note

44% of rape victims are under 18, 80% is under 30. 60% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police, 15 or 16 rapists will never spend a day in jail. Approximately 2/3 of assaults are made by someone who knows the victim. 38% of rapists are friends or family.

Reviews

[∂αʌ<..]

this peom hold so much truth...so much pain...so much rage in it...it moved me...wow!

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

that was so sad this was a really good poem

100/100

[Katub]

This has alot of importance and self understanding, i know someone whose been through that and its horrible seeing them after, the change is undescribable.
Well wrote :) Xxx

[Kayla K]

This poem had such a great meaning behind it. Rape is just wrong..It's one of those things I'll never understand.

[.......]

i feel so sad for this girl.

[zappy]

Wow a very good point you just mande

[Tasha]

This is so sad, but I'm glad someone is writing about topics that most people choose not to write about. Good job.

[CharlesMonroe]

): I feel so bad for that girl. But I love you're hard hitting topics. Great job (:

[HopelesslyDevoted]

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