The shadow of his hand
Hovers over my path
It's impossible to avoid it
I'm a victim of his wrath
Every mark he's made on me
On my body and deep inside
Are reasons on top of reasons
For why I envied those who died
I wasn't the first and I won't be the last
His terror will reign free
For I, like others, am not brave enough
To make known what he did to me
He waited in the darkness
Of my home, safe in my bed
And the moment I came into the room
He hit me over the head
It must have been a long time
Before I finally came to
And the sight that met my eyes then
Would last forever, that, I knew
I struggled to avoid the blade
He was pulling from his pocket
But my hands and legs were tied tightly
And when I strained I hurt the sockets
His smiling face was closer now
There was nothing I could do
His foul, disgusting breath reached my face
As he sliced my belt in two
By now I knew what would come next
But I my head wouldn't let me believe
That he could do such a horrid thing
That he wouldn't just leave
Tossing away the belt, he returned
And started zipping down my fly
And to my greatest horrors
He gave a satisfied sigh
My three older sisters
Had fallen to him like this
The first two had died and the third left home
Away from his want of sexual bliss
I had heard tell of it happening
And how the terrors grew
But I never accepted a word of it
That these stories could have been true
I was still a virgin
But that was soon to change
As he pulled my jeans completely off
I began feeling awfully strange
A cool breeze touched my skin
As he rolled up my top
And cut it across the centre
He didn?t intend to stop
My skin began to prickle
Wearing just my underwear
Without any possible escape
And a torturer who didn?t care
His cold steel knife ran over my chest
As he slid it under my bra
And in one flick, broke the strap
Revealing my breasts to the stars
But he wasn't finished yet, oh no
The bad stuff had just begun
As he patiently moved below my waist
I could see he was having fun
He enjoyed every wriggle
And every squirm he got from me
And he guided his little pocketknife
As I lay there helplessly
Inch by inch towards my hip
Gliding across my skin
He was quick to strip my undies
Revealing the secrets within
So I began to save my strength
As I lay there motionless
Vulnerable, but I couldn't do much
He was going to make me a mess
It wasn't long before I saw
That my suspicions had been right
He now returned to where I could see
Standing exposed in the night
He began to climb onto the bed
Placing one leg on either side of me
He lowered his body onto mine
And began to caress gently
But then all at once he entered
And I felt a terrible pain
One that lasted the whole time
That I wish never to feel again
I thrashed about, but he held me fixed
Overpowering was his will
He touched me all over my body
Until I was almost physically ill
Then I saw two watching eyes
And I screamed out desperately
Mommy, can't you do something
To get Daddy off of me!?
