RAPE POEM
no No NO
How many times must I tell you: you’ve got it all wrong, completely and utterly wrong.
I don’t want you touching me, I don’t want your hands on me at all.
I was fine before you started unzipping my pants, before you started in with your tongue and lips and fingers.
I was content with hand-holding and maybe a kiss here or there, happy and sheltered by your side.
But now it feels like you are conquering me, that I am some piece of earth, a mound to be moved, and I simply do not want to be moved.
I need to be grounded, not relocated. You should know this by now.
So I tell you no No NO
But you do not seem to hear.
This is such a primeval story: the brute’s ears closing over when lust and erection take hold of him.
He cannot be stopped; the wheel rolling down the hill.
I do not blame you for an urge that came centuries before you were even born, an urge I am sure I must have hidden somewhere deep inside of me.
I do not blame you for wanting to conquer me - god knows I wanted to conquer you.
But don’t you know there are more subtle, more quiet ways to conquer someone and their flesh?
This way is just too brutal.