For All The Thousands of Women Who Are Victims Of Domestic Violence and Abuse
(whatever form it takes)
carpe tunicula
so she can't swim anymore
sadistic fiend
the wrecker managed
to even ruin her swimming
only thing she liked
tortuous bastard
sociopaths are clever
disguise themselves well
nightmare existence
she couldn't tell anyone
no one would believe her
right and proper
pillar of the establishment
a secret monster
carpe diem
carpe everything
you can hold on to
never give up
carpe thoughts of flight
carpe libertas
Recent Australian Statistics
https://www.smh.com.au/national/one-in-six-women-victims-of-physical-or-sexual-violence-by-a-partner-20180227-p4z20z.html
Event details:
Day: Saturday, 7th March 2018
Time: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm
Venue: Karstens Sydney, 111 Harrington Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Midweek Motif Poets United
Tuesday Photo Challenge MLMM #202
Time to out these upstanding bastards
ReplyDeleteI love the fierceness of this poem!
ReplyDeleteI am thinking of my older daughter, now recovering from just such monsters. And hardly anyone believed her, they were so slick. You nailed it.
ReplyDeleteLet us carpe everything we need to rise against abusers. Great write and I wish I was there for the march.
ReplyDeleteDisturbing! Carpe diem and escape immediately..
ReplyDeleteHigh time the pendulum swings! Your words are well-chosen!
ReplyDeleteI could never undestand this need for dominance until I realised that it was behaviour echoing their own fathers. This may not be true of all cases but was certainly the case in many I have noticed over the years. How does one break this trait from childhood? Re-education might only make the perpetrator resentful.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant final stanza! Pow!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is women can't be hard. Violence against women is all over the world and you won't believe what happens to Indian victims at the hand of such brutes. Ugh. Love this powerful poem, Rall.
ReplyDelete...tragic
ReplyDelete