Pete the poet

Not Guilty

Not guilty m’lud after all

She was only a child small

So very young and naive,

Those days she now grieves.

 

Regular slaps with verbal abuse

Her mother with routine misuse

Would rule her life of pain

she’d get hit again and again.

 

Throughout her childhood confusion

As she didn’t know what she’d done,

To get the punishment severe

But she felt guilt through the tears.

 

The child assumed she was at fault

“why else would mother hit me?

I am such a bad girl really”

She thought I must do what I ought.

 

Now she lives with pain in her heart

Wondering just what actual part

Did she play in deserving a beating,

She was getting the devil’s meeting.

 

She grew up alongside the violence

As though it was a natural part of life

She matured, held the pain in silence

Her first male attacker was her strife.

 

He was like a beast he acted even worse

Attacking a woman who is weaker

Leaving her full of bruises is beyond verse

A brute not a man and a woman-hater.

 

Occasions of violent submission were hers

Ending a relationship through being raped,

A narcissistic sociopath was her curse

A sub-human who thought himself as great.

 

Inflicting the worse kind of cruel violence

Sent stabs of guilt pain and grief into her

She has a black hole in her heart once

She parted from the worse kind of raper.

 

 

 

 

II

 

The puzzle for me is how could he do so

Much violence to such a kind and caring soul?

She does not have a bad bone in her body

To take advantage this way, scum must he be.

 

The woman recognises the abuser is not aware

Of the damage he has done, he doesn’t care

He feels he has done nothing wrong, mistake!

This shows he is a psychopath on the make.

 

He is lucky to escape a possible life sentence

There is no excuse for rape, nor any defence,

It is on a similar level as murder in seriousness,

To carry on contacting his victim is senseless.

 

He has no regard nor love for his victim

For such a person is incapable of loving

Anyone but himself, my level of loathing

Says killing him would be too good for him.