Scarry Volition!
Thinking about my decision to be a survivor and how Gloria must have felt while getting sexually assaulted and then I tried to imagine her becoming a survivor. Thus I came up with a poem;
Scarry Volition
I wanna keep running
Choked up with emotions
Emptied of all belief
Depressed beyond measures
Bereaved and weak
I wanna keep running
Running?
Yes! Running from Me
I do not want to look back
Back at my ugly past
Back at my dirty scene
Back at my bloody self
I am going crazy
Crazy with nightmares
Threatening to devour me
Will it go
If I scrubbed myself in bleach?
Will it go
If I take my life away?
5 minutes of pleasure for them
A lifetime of torture for me
Can I keep running from Me
Will it hunt me down?
Or maybe
I should become a survivor
And deal with IT head-on
That way
I will no longer run
I will work majestically
With an aura of triumph
A smile of victory
And a new name
Survivor!
By Abana Asabe for the 16days of activism
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