Spoken into silence and emptiness again The words echo off my wall into loneliness and shame. The stillness of my being awoken from my sleep Finding darkness in my soul lonely tears I weep. Empty words of innocence of cruelty and of shame Crying out into the night into loneliness again. Painful memories so deep and emptiness I've known I reach for understanding just to find that I'm alone. Desperate cries in silence never letting go Wounds so deep inside me the pain I only know. Sadness has engulfed me bitter to the end Pieces of my innocence shattered by a friend. Inside - my innocence is lost he took that from me - And in this world of brokenness there's nothing left in me. © Christina June, 1992

"This poem is about the painful subject of rape, and the feelings of the victim - of shame, loneliness, bitterness....and betrayal....where inside nothing feels the same anymore.   Where inside you are screaming, and all the remains is broken, shattered, and empty....and all you want is for it to go away....all the pain, shame, hurt and betrayal....especially when it was a friend."

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