RAPED BY DEFINITION

RAPED BY DEFINITION

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Raped by definition- I have been violated.

No love or God

could enter the entrapment of the cage

as my arms dangled into the void.

I could scream

and the scream would fade into an abyss

so likely

the iron bars I’ve made for myself.

Chipping away

at the stone facade. I am still in here

desperately calling out for no one

for in these violations

they have corrupted me.

Raped by ill reasoning- I have turned my back.

Not Mother or Father

or friend could yank me from stasis

crying for the shame

I thought I brought on myself.

The birds in this cage sacrificed for me

for a raped woman

needs to replant her destiny, and

stand tall again in her higher self.

The whispers of God penetrate my mind

struggling to heave

Gods arms against these fallen pillars

delivering me beyond my flagellation.

Raped by desperation- the rape occurs over and over.

No tool could cut these chains

or the heavy metal burdens

as I fight daily to regain consciousness

praying that the nightmare

will be over soon.

Only love

could enter the incivilities my heart feels

and resurrect me from my tomb.

Crucified

I have witnessed my own death and rising

as God flows

in and out of me with His Light.

To know His Light is to know suffrages

accounting

for the penetrating healing of His Love.

So in Gods love-

So in His warm and divine arms I am.

Raped by the evil hands of Satan

God reaches for me.

In His rapture I am Saved by Grace,