In the Mind of a Rape Victim

Hush Hush,

you are but a blossoming seed

              young

you cannot know what you want.

Accept the water that

makes you grow

that water (that drowns you 

in the nothingness

        you were reduced to)

soak the sunlight 

that gives you life 

the sunlight (that reminds you

of the light you used to feel inside

        before it was taken from you)

grow your roots deep 

in the earth

so hard to grow into earth,

the same earth you once

                      lay helpless upon.

you are but a seed

a seed wise enough to understand 

please and thank you.

a seed grown or not enough to 

         understand the distinction 

of (a deal and a gift)words and absence.

                  muteness

the absence-

of words, of affirmation, of voice

but, Hush, such

petty unnecessaries,

just Accept the gift, the offer

just Accept it.

what force is used

in giving a gift?

              a gift, inherent 

good.

        what is bad in good?

Accept it, think no more.

just Accept it.

all bad must 

just be 

you.

Hush Hush, 

                             you need not fuss

so.

it consumes you from

within

but now Hush,

          think no more.

just a gift.

Hush child, 

for a flower 

cries not at the flight

of a bee.

such power

in the gift

of finding 

Silence

in screams.