Rapists’ Deafness To; No! Stop!

We live life of lies, in societies; a world where
Nearly every streets, in your face are pictures
Marked by their defects as delicate passion; 
ladies on display their charm will-fully to woo:
As men as debased as flowery as in makeup
All hooked in sins as regally deprave as pirates

Back in the day they were chased in alleyways
Redlight districts but today all over your areas
Filling brothels to brim: shadowing for clientele
The joyless; alone as lonely seeking sanctuary
Seeking benediction and blessing to quench
Hunger as appetite planted by devious divinity 

Yet confronted we are daily with news of rapists
Women, men, children aside assaulted-killed
Hawkers and beggars snatched off streets
By these psychos; bestial breeds of monsters
Dead, deaf, dumb as ignoble born by bastards
Bent on perilous trail, brewing hate as turmoil

When has human society turned wildlife park?
Where amity turn objectifying arena to defile
God’s most creative contributions to the world
What is in the psichy of such souls? What bile
What vile engrained in such Beings to trigger 
Such urge; hostility to plunger harm and hurt

At what point did NO, STOP, not mean that?
How humans with mothers as sib sisters:
Have dear male as female friends esteemed
Would yet against another’s will desecrate:
Planting and nurturing a life-long desolation 
Of hate hurt, frustration, doubt as self-blame

Firm to mark another human with scar for life
Fixed on implanting nightmarish life as forlorn
And dare do so justifying victim’s role or place
Dare say invited, incited such dastardly act?
How would any by ascent or imprudent invite
Such horrible, terrible, sickening as rotten act?

No, stop simply means no, stop; not mixed:
Not to be confused: interpreted or weighed
Rape has no scale as needing any absolution
And, it matters not; not a bit, who the victim is
Where, why, how or what was done, did to be
In what such position; even legal or not linked

How complicated can these be?
No! spoken or signified in posture,
Mean NO
Stop! whether seen, voiced or stance
Means STOP
No grey areas.

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