Who says it was rape?
When you beckoned with pouting lips
And took my gifts with willing hands
Who says it was rape?
Not once did you squirm or shout
Not a murmur left your mouth,
You responded to my touch with glee,
Aiding and abetting my ravishing spree,
From Abia to Zamfara
From Yenogoa to Bauchi
You lay there willing and waiting for my caress
To touch you, hold you; claim your body with my skill
You claim to hate spurn and detest me still
You spend each night cocooned in my arms
And I pillage and ravage and squander and loot
Filling my lust with your rich heady essence
Leaving you spent spoiled weak and unfulfilled
But each every four years as I make to leave
You beckon to me again
And the Romance continues…
Sunshine.
Sunshine writes from Nigeria and would welcome honest feedback from all readers
I wrote this for Nigerians. We get the Leaders we deserve. We need to desire and demand better. We might claim they are ‘raping us’ but even that wont absolve us of the consequences of indifference.
Our Deeds must be louder than our rants.
Related Posts via Taxonomies
Comments
Sunshine @nicolebassey
i love writing. i love reading. i love feedback. Read my other poems/stories by clicking on my profile. You can also follow me on Twitter. @CeceBassey.Go to Sunshine's profile, and read more of his/her posts.
The last line sold this to me completely.
Not the last line of the poem but the last line of the post.
Creative. Lovely.
Thank you Seun-Odukoya, I am glad you like it. The idea came to me on democray day. The lines came unfettered. We have to begin thinking of ways to stop this ‘Romance’.
I like!
Thank you afroscribe
Hmm…
How far a poem can go.
Beautiful. But remember it’s not all of us that agree to be caressed and smile when done so. Some of us don’t have options.
Well done.
How far can a poem go?
Explain please thank you?
Nicely written… but like seun-odukoya this is what makes this a much better piece for me…
“We get the Leaders we deserve. We need to desire and demand better. We might claim they are ‘raping us’ but even that wont absolve us of the consequences of indifference.
How true…
Kudos. I likey very much.
Thank you atumercy. I hope to write better,
Gbam! This is on point.
But as always, the revolution ends right here, on paper.
No it cannot end here. It only begins here… soon we ll be ready to call it quits
Nice poem. I didn’t really get the “gist” till the last line of the post. Strong stance.
hehe glad to have held yor gaze that long…
Nice one…When there is a rape, one screams and pleads till indifference or dissociation is achieved..
Have we been raped?..Yes!..
Love the way you tied it all in…Well done…$ß.
lol. thank you ma!
Nice poem.love d metaphor of romance…
Poor nigerians!
We only chose d least of evil…
Our politicians are corrupt.
and…unsurprisingly, so are we
hehe our politicians they are, thank God they dont come from Mars. Thank you for stopping by.
Sunshine, this is brilliant. magnificent writing. we really deserve our leaders joor. as long as we keep lining up like idiots to vote in these same pple and do nothing abt their ravaging hands, we shd shut up and enjoy the ride for God knows we won’t be satisfied until we climax. hehehehehe. nice one! i so love this.
am glad you like it Sally
Twas highly…. I’m short of words. Okay one word 4 it. Splendid.
Nice one @sunshine.
Thank you My pretty lacto
Obviously the house is unanimous in approval of this one, just on the money @sunshine.
Seriously though, we talk as if what takes place in naija is ” an election”. There is no “we the people” in this equation .
A process that is manipulated with forgeries and what not…So fuck yes..it is Rape!
okay this is just me letting off steam aight!
Hehe who manipulates us? Aliens? Thank you for reading.
Nice one @sunshine. You’ve said it all.
Thank you Ayodeji Lancaster .
.
This is nice. You are definitely good at writing poems.
I think the Nigerian situation is truly not that of rape but an unfulfilling marriage of convenience; where both parties cheat on each other and turn round to blame the other.
Keep improving your art. There is no end to learning.
Ouch! What a vividly repulsive yet true image. Marriage of convenience, hmmm, it brings flash fiction stories to my finger tips….. Thank you Chemo
I love this poem.. Are we being raped? Partially. A lot of people enjoy the corrupt system cause they are gaining from it. Injustice and corruption is everywhere, even in families.
So we might be raped but we sometimes get pleasure from the rape.
My point exactly! I can’t count the number of times i heard the phrases ‘raping the nations finances’ in the past year ,yet we do nothing and it just keeps getting worse. Thank you gooseberry, i really appreciate your stopping by.
Lovely piece of work!
Seriously…I would have asked questions but you answered them already with the footnote after the poem.
@Afronuts Thank you! Please ask all the questions you want to ask . And thank you for reading.
Yes o, who can truly call it rape? Our nation’s situation is more like meaningless consensual sex, with the unsatisfied party turning round to scream ‘rape’! Good job.
Thank you
Nice one! Wanted to raise some issues with the use of rape, then again – we are all culpable one way or the other…
please raise the issues. Thank you for your time.
You are starting to be my next favourite person!!
wow @teewah , am blushing!!!
Great piece
Thanks Tee @Teell
Just … beautiful. Good job.
Enjoyed reading this this. Well done.
Thank you yejide-kikanko , You have made my evening!
Apart from the political angle of Nigerians getting the kind of leadership they bargained for, this is also practical message to girls that would collect all kinds of gifts from men and later claim they were raped when the man forcefully takes compensation.
well done ma’am.
You know there is this axiom that people get the leaders they deserve. I agree with you on this thought, @nicolebassey. We, the followers, are as complicit as our leaders in the state of our nation. Nice imagery. Imagery is what poetry is about.