Rape
A Haiku Descent into the Silence of Violation
By Jason “Jay” BenskinPublished 9 months ago • 1 min read
Credit: Interior (The Rape) Edgar Degas Original Title: L'intérieur (Le Viol) Date: 1868
Shadows silenced my cries
muted screams trapped inside,
the night refuses to let me mend.
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Comments (8)
This is so deeply sad.
Deep and disturbing. Fantastic job.
What a perfect definition the crime of RAPE. You can see the pain in the image. Good job.
Very good work, congrats 👏
Hauntingly powerful and deeply moving — left me speechless.
Powerful three sentences that encapsulated pages of emotions.
Felt every word of this having experienced it myself. The perfect profound capture of something that is not easily expressed in so few words.
This is very sad. But it is also an unfortunate reality of life. The way you wrote this it could be relevant to any sort of form of oppression or abuse.