To the boy who hurt her:
I’ll never forget that night
I’ll never forget the night she came home in tears
I’ll never forget seeing her shaking in fear
She reeked of beer and whiskey but that didn’t seem to be the source of tears
She said you took her upstairs
She stumbled, one step after another
She wanted you to stop there, you should have stopped there
But you didn’t, you drug her one step after step and then stopped at the bathroom
when I thought her story was close to end
When I thought she would say you stopped and let her leave
When I thought somehow you remembered the good in you, I thought
That you realized it was time to give her back to her friends and pretend you didn’t try
isn’t that a funny thought,
Pretend, well she tried to.
Pretend, pretend like it never happened
Pretend that you never drug her into that bathroom or slipped anything into her drink
Pretending can only work for so long
She proved that, you helped her
She tried to pretend and that brought her to me
She told me everything, everything she could remember
You took a lesson from your own book
You saw her and pretended
You Pretended you had never seen her before
Pretended you didn’t shatter her world
In case you didn’t know, you did that
You broke her
You turned her into a girl that didn’t know herself
You turned her into a girl who constantly looked over her shoulder
That night you pretended shattered her more
That night, was the first time I saw you
That night, was the first time she saw you and then
Suddenly, it all came back
She could remember now
She could see the hate in your eyes
She could feel your arms tightly pulling her down
The screams, her yelling, she heard them and realized, they were her own
I’m sorry you were low enough to do what you did
I’m sorry that night in the club scared her half to death
I’m sorry that, that night you thought you won
You didn’t win, she’s stronger now, different but stronger
You took something from her
You also gave her something
You made her scared but forced her to stand up
She’s different now, and ill hate you for that forever but she’s stronger now and for that I thank you