Modern and Dark Sleeping Beauty

Her eyes opened wide at last,

She was finally awake.

And she looked about around her:

Oh shit! There must be some mistake!

She had a splitting headache

And her throat was sort of sore.

She wasn't sure exactly what happened,

She just didn't know anymore.

Finally she became aware:

That she was in a dirty comforter,

That smelt of axe and men,

That her body was naked and bare.

She was in a stranger's bed,

With the sheets stained with blood,

her thighs a burning red.

And she began to slowly cry.

The other side of the bed was empty.

He must've gone to class.

And he left her there forsaken.

She felt like broken glass.

She quickly checked her phone-

She needed a ride back home.

But then she found herself in pictures

She'd never have wanted to be shown.

A stifling cry as she began to remember

Where she had met that man.

He had seemed nice enough.

As nice as a stranger gets.

He had gotten her a drink,

And she took it with open hands.

But then she had fallen asleep-

There was something wrong with that drink

And he had taken her innocence

When she was too weak to get up and leave.

She didn't get to resist,

She didn't get to say "no,"

And she was so embarrassed to go.

So she kept her mouth shut.

When she saw him on campus

She'd duck her head.

When her friends asked why

She said nothing had happened.

And when she tested positive

She wasn't allowed to have an abortion-

And there was no other way out.

Her parents couldn't let

Their unwed daughter be a mother

So they told her there was no choice-

She'd have to wed him or end her life.

So one day at the dead of night...

She plunged into her heart a knife.