I feel like a hopeless animal <br />That would be a useless dog <br />That mated with two other <br />Annoying animals <br />In a beastly fashion too obscene <br />To swallow into silence. <br /> <br />Their eyes eat through my skin <br />Their hands tear down my clothes <br />I feel like a useless tin <br />Only useful to the greedy eyes <br />Of a rapist who lies <br />And strangles my neck <br /> <br />He cheats and abstracts justice <br />He hides and waylays when its dark <br />My feelings have become <br />The feelings of a prisoner Like a bird in a cage <br />whose wings Are useless to flee <br />whose wings could have flown to freedom <br /> <br />I feel like a half eaten bone <br />Thrown to the wild dogs <br />My tears run like an overflowing river <br />In vain because it’s too late <br />To save my dignity in the hands of those <br />Who tear my clothes apart.<br /><br />Joyce wolayo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/raped-12/
