and my manager was talking to his boss about how we got slammed with customers earlier that morning
"murdered" they called it
"Man, we got fricken murdered this morning!"
and his boss says
"Yeah, at our store, we got raped!"
Raped? Really?
Can you for real sit there and use that term so lightly?
Unless all your workers were held down, strapped to the ground and your customers forced themselves upon you with their breath breathing up your face as you cry out in disgrace
then yes, by all means, please say you got raped today
But let me ask you something:
Can you sleep well tonight?
Or are your dreams poisoned by
images
images of their faces
sitting around
laughing
cackling at you
as one of their friends
thrusts and thrusts and thrusts up into you
and you can't do anything but
wonder how far they're gonna go till it's over
till they've had enough to dispose of you
on the side of a curb next to a trash can
leaving, driving away cuz now they feel more like a man having
dominated
violated
evaporated
every sense of security and sound mind you thought you had
Now I don't know about this personally, no
this ain't never happened to me
but there was one
yeah, there was one
One previously torn apart and broken down
from the broken family she grew up around
but she didn't let that hold her from going further
she was blossoming into something beautiful
life like water was flowing free from the forgiveness and peace she was giving and receiving
and then
and then
her sister calls me up one day
and what does she say?
"Elise, something bad happened, babe."
Elise, something bad happened, I'm thinking, Elise, something bad happened.
"Last night, Justine was sexually assaulted."
RAPED
See? Even she couldn't say it! EVEN SHE COULDN'T SAY IT SO WHY SHOULD YOU?
Bullshit, I don't even wanna hear it
cuz you know nothing
you know nothing about that night that replays in my mind
tinted in that evil green
their five faces hidden behind
the little-boy baseball caps they pulled down over their eyes and their intentions
five guys hanging out outside her dorm room
thinking maybe just one sexy girl will come home soon
and there she comes
my friend there she comes just from another night
and she's got school the next day so she bid goodbye to her friends early
at 9PM
NINE PM
she wasn't even asking for it
it was 9 PM
as soon as it hit dark it was enough for them
so they grabbed her a forced her into a van
stripping off her favorite pink Roxy shirt that she threw away after that
cuz even the feeling of the cloth on her skin made her mind reminisce on that night
that night where she put up her best fight against the five
and lost not just her body but her trust
from a bunch of boys driven by their lust
I saw her the next night
the first night she got the chance to sleep
if you wanna call it sleeping
she kicked her legs around, dipping in and out of infected dreams
her sister trying to whisper peace in her ear in between her quiet screams
that she shouldn't fear cuz it was us here now
Shane and Shane on the radio crying for God to Be Near
"Be near, O God, Be near, O God of us. Your nearness is to us our good."
They strummed us through the darkest night
as we prayed for light
to somehow pierce through and help us fight for her
to carry our sister with words of promises
that seemed as far away as yesterday
when everything was still bright
So please, watch your words
cuz that word strikes a chord in me
that obviously does not resonate in you
Do not say that it's true
that you
got 'raped' today
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