Shut Up and Listen To Survivors

I will keep posting this until people pay attention to what I wrote in here. This is a poem that needs to be read by everyone.

Healing from Military Sexual Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress

Shut Up and Listen to Survivors

You were not there when I was eleven years’ old

And a friend forced me to give him oral sex

You were not there when I was choking and crying

You were not there when he forced himself on top

Of me and did not care that I was crying.

You were not there when he threatened me to kill me and

My family if I told

You were not there when my mom told me to

Just forget about it and move on

You were not there when two black men raped

Me in a dorm room at the University I attended,

You were not there when a police officer looked at

Me and told me that I deserved what they did because

I was drinking underage and the two men had

Every right to rape me

You were not there when I…

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