"tiptoed.thief:stealing.still" genre: Poetry
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	a quiet, gentle, smiling person who takes something from you... is still a thief.
	CD: for the Famished   Label: Independent Credits: vocals:empress of words all other credits: atinuke abayomi-paul
	Story Behind the Song So many arguments have been made about whether pressing on when your partner says no, or sexual assault of a person you're married to, is rape. here is one perspective. Lyrics gently you stole. i lay sleeping saving my strength to free myself from your world ....til dawn. you weren’t supposed to be home from your sick tryst with the alternate chick so so gently you stole and that was what confused me awakening to kisses refused by me awakening to caresses rejected by me awakening to your soft touch still unwanted. and everyone thinks there has to be always the tearing and screaming and such the intense pain and the physical violence when emotional violence is enough all it needs to be rape is refusal. and everything about me from my strangely inebriated state to my vocalization of protest everything about me said no too weak to shove you off weakened from whatever drug slipped in my one glass of wine you killed part of me with your slow soft attack and before i was fully awakened in confusion shoving you away as best as i could but not good enough because gently you stole entering my temple with swift desecration so i went vacant from my body in stare to wall until you were done and about an hour later when i could stand alone i peeled my tears from the sole of my soul sat in the bathroom and cried for about two days ...maybe... sometimes i dont think i ever stopped crying sometimes i dont think i ever will no matter how gently you steal into me... it’s still rape....

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