Showing posts with label rape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rape. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2015

The Night Remembers

Daniel Murtagh Photograph
Visual prompt by Magpie Tales

It was long ago
half a world
and a third of a lifetime
away
but in the night
too new.

She had been
drugged
it was a blessing
they said
she could not recall
but
the night remembers.

Her body
would curl 
as if still bound
her fists clenched
wrists together 
tied
she would scream.

The night always remembered
she hated sleep
releasing her mind
to the night
she was drugged
bound
and raped.

J. Binford-Bell
October 2016

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Our Bodies to Abuse

Venus de Milo with Drawers by Dali

Our Bodies
they abuse
thinking they have every right
to invade.

Poison our minds
take our breasts
penetrate our wombs
as if theirs.

Turn our hearts
against us
making us obey their will
by rape.

Rape
legal or illegal
we are slaves to the narrow mind
of men.

J. Binford-Bell
February 2013

With special thanks to the GOP