I trust you
Do you trust me ?
It’s okay I promise I won’t show anybody
your safe with me
Don’t worry
I put my trust in you
Until everyone started to look at me different
Until the whispers began
Until I had unwillingly
Shown myself to everyone
Shutting myself in
Was it all my fault ?
Why didn’t I know better ?
Consoling the violation with reassuring words
Maybe not everyone at my new school will know
Hopefully everyone forgets
It’ll blow over soon people will forget
I hope I can forget
The meaning behind this poem is to highlight the experience and thought process of young women like me who have experienced sexual violence.I named this poem Picture Imperfect because I wanted to emphasize how having explicit and or nude photos is an act of sexual violence. I had never realized this until we went over it in class. How having explicit photos you sent , shared with others without your consent is illegal. I was 14 a freshman in Highschool when private pictures I had sent to an ex boyfriend were shared at a neighboring high school. Luckily I had transferred to a new high school , to my knowledge no one at my new school knew, that’s what I told myself to feel better about what happened.I chose this topic because I think its something that needs to be discussed in a high school setting as well. So many girls like myself in high school were exposed. I feel like had I learned this in highschool along with other girls and boys my age being exposed wouldn’t be so popular. At a young age people would learn how not only is morally wrong but also can lead to real consequences. I think this would help exposing of explicit pictures happen less often.Often girls will be made fun of after being exposed for how their body looks but the people who are doing the exposing don’t face any repercussions.There should be more education of the different types of sexual violations/violence the sooner teens are aware the better, I wish I would have know what I know now.
