(This is an anti sexual assault and violence spoken word poem. I wrote this poem for the sake of awareness. This isn't something that we necessarily like and want to think about or talk about, but staying silent doesn't help. The poem speaks to the malice, heinous, evil, and proversely depraved acts that some men commit against women and its effects, but that's not what I wanted to be the focal point of the poem. I wanted it to reign of hope of getting past the assault, moving on from its hold on you, and thriving in the aftermath. I wanted it to have the message that you are more than what happened to you, that you can find the strength to overcome it, and of fighting for justice and gaining the due and just punishment for your assailant, and taking back your power. I wanted it to not just be about the assault but about rising from the ashes of it, of it not forever having its grip on you and possession of you and of your life and it not leaving you broken.)
UNPOSSESSED AND UNBROKEN!!!
(Predator, Demon, I Exorcize You)
[A Spoken Word Poem]
A young woman carefree and hopeful,
Trying to make the best out of life that she can,
Encountered Unabashed Evil,
But still, through it all, she found her strength.
She was accosted, by a perverse, depraved Demon,
On what should have been an ordinary job interview.
Not as yet, twenty-one, even,
And a sexual assault she had to go through.
A well respected doctor
Took away her innocence,
Tried to strip her self-worth from her
Through his act of sexual violence.
This chiropractor's vile act of indecence
Made her self-loathing, ashamed, docile, and weak.
His sociopathic, fiendish, offense
Left her tame, enshackled, passive, and meek,
Timid and insecure.
Of who and what she was, she was left... unsure.
She wasn't as hopeful... vibrant... and self-assured,
Wasn't quite the woman she had been before.
His monstrous act shook her to her core,
Had her suffering, in silence, until she did... roar,
She did speak
Of his shackles, she broke free,
Telling the world, who and what he was
And forcing him to face our laws
For rape in the first degree,
Stripping away, his preyer's anonymity
So, he could no longer be predatory,
And no more harm he could cause.
For justice, she fought,
Gaining, the justice she sought.
She made sure that justice was brought.
She and his other victims did fight,
To free other women from suffering their plight.
SHE SPOKE UP! SPOKE OUT! & TOOK BACK HER LIFE!!!
Stood Up To Her Assailant & Made Him Answer, For His Crime,
And now, he's in prison, doing time,
As she moves on, resolvedly, and ever thrives.
His heinous act she did survive.
By what he did, she is not defined.
All that negative energy she has released,
Rediscovering, her self-worth and value, and finding... resiliency.
She's no longer, in bondage, by his depravity.
And he's now bounded to the sexual predator registry.
The moral of the story is that you don't have to be
Tethered to the things that were done to thee.
From the Demons in your life, BECOME... UNPOSSESSED.
Don't Be Bound By Them, for YOU ARE... BOUNDLESS!!!
A Happy, Prosperous Future, To You, Is Still Open.
Show The World, He Didn't Destroy You And Show Him, YOU ARE... UNBROKEN!!!
"Together We Act, United We Change"
[This poem was inspired by Valarie I. telling her story of what happened to her and how she took back her life, took her power back, and reclaimed her narrative in hopes that it inspires and empowers other victims to take back theirs.]
