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Who's A Prisoner? poem
7 months ago
Who's A Prisoner?
 
Do you know what it is like
To feel protected
Only in the presence
Of closed shades
And locked doors
And even then at times feel unsafe?
 
Daddy walks around
Going to wherever he may please.
I was once the prisoner,
Yet he still holds the keys.
 
The law says he can't harm me
And the time goes slowly by.
Do they know the torture that's still present
With every tear I cry?
 
I can't tell them how much
It hurts me
To know they let him roam.
Do they know I'm still imprisoned
In a place I should call home.
 
The law they say was made to protect me
And yet it's so unfair.
The victim waits and cries for justice
As abusers roam and breathe the air.
 
 
By Victoria R. Kelly
 
7 months ago

once again ..excellent work ....my abuser died last february  ...and now i do regret not telling about him...but the fear he instilled in me from an early age ..prevented me from doing so and  it would have complicated so many lives that i felt i had to be quiet about it

I respect the sentiment of poem
5 months ago

The laws and their intentions seem more of a structure for an industry, rather than pillars to uphold justice.

Hope you are feeling better.

5 months ago

I love the poem and hope you are free now and no longer held in a "prison" like that.  I do think the laws are unfair to the person who was abused.  Wish there were a way to make the abuser be the one to feel like he/she were always in prison.

 

good luck, Victoria.

TBTN!
2 months ago

This is the the first poem I ever publically read in Duluth, MN at a Take Back the Night!  My children were little then!

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