Love vs. Pain I felt pain when my thirteen-year-old body Was brutally beaten and raped I felt pain when I had to keep it A secret for nine months I felt pain when schools kicked me out Because all of a sudden I became bad They didn't know I was crying for help I felt pain when I walked to school And saw the guy who raped me Smiling with his friends Messing with young girls who walked by I felt pain when I told my mother I was raped And nine months pregnant I felt loved when she said Do you want me to go to jail, or him? I felt loved when my baby girl was born Two days after the perpetrator Was sentenced to fifteen years Love and pain together Love and pain together. -Shirlania Post