No amount of soap could ever erase
what you had done to me
Your filth is smeared across my body
My mind is plagued with terrible memories
And you can go and wipe me off of you,
But I will have to live with your stain forever.
Every time I go out, my only thoughts
Are of this stain.
You have ruined my life
No words of apology
or demonstrations of love
Would ever fix this.
The day I learned you were going to trial
You plead not guilty to the charge of
Rape and Battery
You simply said
"she's lying"
"She doesn't know what she's talking about"
But I do.
I may have only been six
When it first started happening
But I was ten years older
Ten years wiser
Ten years filthier
And I know what you did to me.
It's been twenty years since I last saw you
Filthy and behind bars
No chance of parole
That didn't change the fact
That I was still traumatized
I was afraid my daughter would be
hurt by someone like you
I was afraid my husband would
Never understand.
No amount of soap may erase
What you have done.
But I'm cleaner now than ever before
-Madison Pope
