Not my kind of world

Learning from the world around me

That my choice to go with him

When I should have known

Makes his choice my fault

Learning from the world around me

That my every decision

Gives him a justification

To take something that wasn't his

And I'm learning from the world around me

That it's not safe

For a woman to walk alone at night

In case he's also walking alone at night

The lonely predator, not so lonely

Society insisting that women be careful

But not that men don't rape

I live in a world

That because I was stupid enough to get in the damn car

That I was stupid enough to drink something he gave me

That I was careless enough to let this happen to me

It's not his fault.

What kind of world do we live in

Where taking something from someone without asking

Is justified by the clothes she wears,

Or the times she decides to walk

Or the drinks she decides to consume

What kind of world do we live in

Where a victim becomes a criminal by default

What kind of world do we live in

Where you take the fault for someone else's decision to be less than human

Not the kind of world I want to be a part of.

Reviews

[The Black Warrior]

Wow Jen this is very powerful and profound... I walk alone all the time, I take this as a big warning sign...

I walk to school every day, I had to walk at night few times though... but thank God nothing happened to me... :D Is crazy how scary and mysterious a place can be once its night!!!
That it's not safe
For a woman to walk alone at night
In case he's also walking alone at night

I like this two lines

Overall, this is a well penned and I like the flow of this poem :)