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The Unbelievable (I.P.)

Posted by Silver Spun Sand on September 10, 2011 - 17:56
from the ABC set Silver Spun Sand Poems

I am that voice in your head –
the one aspired, more than anything,
from a little girl, to be a teacher...
not a phantom behind a veil...

The one set up a secret school
to learn how to read and to write;
what it felt like to smile again.
Have hands, mind – an identity
for the first time in their life...

till they ransacked their home;
burned the books, hers, and a friend’s...
locked the bedroom door – raped one.
The other got away...caught,

then arrested because her shoes
were ‘too noisy’ on the streets; a ‘law’,
made that afternoon...tortured
till she ‘spilled the beans’.

The one was stoned, two weeks
before their sixteenth birthday;
the one they called ‘promiscuous’.
A child they tore from her womb –
proof, they said...

The one does not ask
for your prayers, or your pity.
Instead, just that you believe
the unbelievable, and hear
that still, small voice,
in your head.

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Comments

Highhat | September 10, 2011 - 18:04

Yes you wouldn't believe such attrocities could happen but they do. Thanks for the read Tina- a brilliant take on the IP

;)Pia

Silver Spun Sand | September 10, 2011 - 18:15

Thanks for reading, Pia.

Tina

MaggieG | September 10, 2011 - 18:58

Yes.... These "unbelievable" things happen everyday. This is quite stunning :)

Silver Spun Sand | September 10, 2011 - 20:29

Thank you, Maggie.

Tina

Silver Spun Sand | September 11, 2011 - 06:56

Thanks for reading, Julie.

Tina

skinner_jennifer | September 11, 2011 - 15:39

Hello Tina,

this was so sad, and as the title said an
'unbelievable' thing to happen to anyone.

You've touched on a very delicate subject
and handled it very well.

Jenny.

Silver Spun Sand | September 11, 2011 - 17:34

Thanks for that, Jenny. Something I feel very passionate about and just had to get out of my system. You know the feeling.

Tina

Cavalcaderl | September 12, 2011 - 14:12

new Silver-Spun-Sand
Yes, a very good one sad, take on for the (IP)
And I agree, Maggy and Highhat, these unbelievable things do happen, worse luck even to-day.
Hope get the sun. And a cherry!
Well deserved cherry on
a delicate dedicated well written person.
maybe of certain person.
julie xx

Silver Spun Sand | September 12, 2011 - 14:18

Thanks for reading this one, Julie. Much appreciated;-)

Hope you don't get blown away today. It is very, very windy here. Hang on to your hat, as they say.

Tina xx