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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Blame the victim, no more!

Lying still on a hospital bed
 Bruises covering her body and head
 She tries to understand what is worse?
 Rape or rage, of the people who curse?
 
 "She must have asked for it
 Look at her clothes, how tight they fit
 So many guys, she calls them friends
 She shoud have known, this is how it ends"
 
 Writhing in pain, humiliation and fury
 She doesn’t know who's more evil? the criminals or the jury?
 How easy it is, oh how convenient it can be
 To blame the victim and set the monsters free!
 
 She didn’t ask for it, no she didn't
 It is fools who take her mere existence as a hint
 If her clothes offend you, you offend humanity
 For every gentleman will agree, clothes don't define chastity
 You blame her for having friends, why o why?
 Did you question the friends, whose friendship was a lie?
 
 "She was drinking, how could she?
 It isn't good for a girl, to be so free
 What else did she expect, hanging out this time of the night?
 Doesn't she know, wrong from right?"
 
 A frightening fire eats up her soul
 Punching her chest, leaving her heart with a hole
 What was more painful? The abuse or the blame?
 Different crimes, but they hurt just the same!
 
 How does alcohol make her more available?
 What kind of animals pounce on a human vulnerable?
 If you really do want to make late nights safer 
 Teach them the rules, and please spare her
 
 Enough! Enough with putting the victim to shame
 Enough with the injustice, with all the blame game!
 Point a finger, if you must
 Not on her, but on them and their lust
 Her clothes, her behavior, her freedom and her choice
 Are basic rights, not reasons to curb her voice
 No reason ever, justifies a crime so low
 Blame the victim no more, set her free, let her go!

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