Her "NO" Was Never Heard
by
Mary -BrytEyz- Ball
(Age: 38)
copyright 10-01-2001
Age Rating: 10 to 127
A tired YES wife
is living her NO life
Heaving her YES sighs
while dreaming of NO strife
She'll weave her YES lies
believing it's alright
Hiding her YES cries
in bleeding NO midnights
She says YES to the NO sinning preacher
His lecherous immoral advances
Yes to her Master breadwinning creature
Sedating angry and hostile glances
YES to the teacher man up at the school
Who'll give her kids added scholastic chances
And the mechanic wielding his rape tool
Subduing with her drape chords and valances
A tired YES wife
is living her NO life
Heaving her YES sighs
while dreaming of NO strife
She'll weave her YES lies
believing it's alright
Hiding her YES cries
in bleeding NO midnights
YES back when she was younger, a kid in bed
to a NO father figure creeping at night
YES to the neighbors who were lawfully wed
Assuring her everything would be alright
Yes to mother's pot smoking friends in the dark
a child crying NO with what a child can
Yes to the babysitters who left NO mark
Teenage boys just pretending to be a man
A tired YES wife
is living her NO life
Heaving her YES sighs
while dreaming of NO strife
She'll weave her YES lies
believing it's alright
Hiding her YES cries
in bleeding NO midnights
She screams NO in her heart, and NO in her eyes
NO with her body that's passed around like pot
Everyone tokes another smoke to get high
Seeing and hearing YES in her when there's not
NO-body sees what NO-body wants to see
NO-body hears the cries from within her chest
No-body knows the pain that she feels deeply
What will love be like, when she finally says YES?
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Another gem that I've just found. This poem reeks of abuse. I love the lines
"A tired YES wife
is living her NO life"
That sums everything that has happened to her.
This is a sad write, a good write, a maddening write, a write worth reading again.
Its too bad that even today, the strong use force over the young and week. An act that is suppose to be sacred to the bedroom of the married, is forced on the unwilling.Your poem is well written and your pain is noted,though the severity will never be understood by most. Thanks, Anthony
considering that you write for me I thougth it only best I write for you to. I think this is a wonderful poem. And it makes me want to read more of your poems. Great job!
Very strong truly a comment on today's society.
I can emphasise with you and also tell you that at my age 77 time has moved on and it fades.
D Reynolds
This was truly a very powerful poem, and NO I didn't enjoy the subject, but certainly enjoyed the poem...the sensitivity, the courage, the pain, the hope that she will finally one day know what PURE LOVE is.
Don't why, but as I first started to read the poem, I started thinking of that song (I think its by Guns and Roses) "Janey's Got a Gun". Maybe because your poem has the same type of power as that song, and I can envision this poem transforming into a song.
Your writing, lyrics are up there with the likes of socially conscious folk singers as Joan Baez...
WoOoOah! *sigh* sometimes you get around to wondering why scum like that even exist! :( This is a rlly amazing poem! (I had to reread it after I read yr comment, cuz I didn't get it that well at first, but it rlly is! It's just.. WOW!)
Robert and A.R.(David)Lewis... you always seem to hit the nail on the head. :) This is a true story about a girl who was abused time and again as she grew and finds it hard to cope even as an adult. She always feels like the scared child she used to be and freezes, resulting in not being able to shout "NO" even now.
She's afraid they will (1)get angry and hurt her, or (2) nobody will hear her if she could, or even worse... (3) nobody will help even if her cries ARE heard. She thinks this because all three have happened before.
She's been molested by her father, her uncle and aunt (the neighbors), the friends of her mother, babysitters (actually her step-grandfather was one of the "babysitters"), her brother, and now even the pastor and her husband (who is also the mechanic).
She gives in to her husband's sexual demands even when she doesn't want to because she's afraid he'll get mad and letting him seems less bad than being forced could get...as she knows first hand. The part about the school teacher was made up (Thanks to Forrest Gump).
She feels dirty like drugs and doesn't know what to do about it. She's heard that sex can be good and fun and leave you feeling "clean"... and she longs for that day.
So, there you have it. :) Hope you didn't enjoy it. *grin* Well, the poetry yes... the topic no. It's a message that needs to be heard, by the abused, the abusers, and everyone else for that matter.
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