To The Girl, Who Keeps Hitting The Back Of My Head. ~ Praise Uyioghosa Osawaru (Wordsmithpraise)

3/7/2019

1. My head is not an antenna you hit thrice before it picks up a frequency,
So stop hitting me,
I don't like it. I never have.

2. I imagine if I touched your lap
and let my fingerprints sink into your thighs,
Twenty-one pilots cannot save my life
from crashing into a police cell.

3. If I poke your back
and your bra accidentally slips off,
I imagine you would slap me, yell at me
and call me a rapist.

4. If I tell my friends, a girl slapped me,
they would laugh at me and call me stupid.
If you tell your friends, a guy touched your shoulders,
they would mourn with you and call for my funeral.

5. My head is also a part of my body
and I don't consent to such advances.
So please, stop hitting me.
Stop (sexually) harassing me.

Praise Uyioghosa Osawaru, also known as Wordsmithpraise, is a poet and writer of Young Adult fiction and creative non-fiction. His short story - CHOP CHOP was featured in Writers Space Africa (WSA) April 2019 Edition.
He is an undergraduate at the University of Benin.
He believes we're all writers of our lives story and encourages everyone to make their lives a best-seller. Praise also blogs about art & literature. His blog - www.wordsmithpraise.com features reviews, stories and poems.
Connect with him on social media, Instagram and twitter @wordsmithpraise.

17 Comments

Osas

5/7/2019 11:02:12 am

Wow Wow. This is amazing. I can see your perspective. Its also Hilarious.

jtaiwo

5/7/2019 01:46:41 pm

Great poem😘😘 ,thumbs up

Yvonne link

5/7/2019 06:52:05 pm

Praise, I love everything about this poem. The use of twenty one pilots. The words. Its simplicity. The message its trying to pass. Man, you are the bomb🙌

Praise Osawaru link

5/7/2019 10:36:10 pm

Thanks 😊

Praise

5/7/2019 07:39:19 pm

It truely is a lovely piece.

Leks_fal

5/7/2019 10:33:15 pm

I love this in particular
And this is especially for the ladies... It going to teach them that we are also harassed by their silly touches and blows

Omons nessa

6/7/2019 12:07:51 am

Hilarious tho but deep.nice one

Airen

7/7/2019 10:05:23 pm

Wow...this is really cool. Lovely message too *Guys can also be harassed*

Marycynthia

9/7/2019 10:18:22 am

Hilarious but realistic

Tope link

9/7/2019 05:22:00 pm

Beautiful play of words, hilarious and truthful in many ways.

Ojo Oluwaseun

9/7/2019 09:59:52 pm

Cool !

Poet my advice for you...sir, is that just makes sure that you don't touch her lap and don't let your fingerprints sink into her thigh... It may be hazardous as you've explained.

And warn her very well never to hit your head. For as lady, she has charm, so that you don't fall a prey by temptation.

Dorcas

10/7/2019 11:53:29 pm

Lovely!
The poem here tries to bring to the world's view that boys are also sexually harassed.
The poem is a call for an awareness that the boy child is also human.

Raymond Oluwalola

12/7/2019 02:12:06 pm

You had me with the first verse, then you now capped it with " twenty one pilots"...applaudise. (In Iyayan's voice)

Whyte Queen

13/7/2019 01:09:09 am

Absolutely true!

It's so sad that it's generally believed that men cannot be raped and preposterously stereotypical to think that men enjoy being "raped".

If a lady touches a little boy anywhere, 'it's a normal thing' but when a man touches a girl, 'it's a rape'.

One is left to wonder where this places the boy child too. As much as the cases of girls being raped cannot be overemphasized, let's endeavour to pay attention to these secret sins being committed against the boy child too.

Bravo, dear poet. May your ink find more expression.

22/7/2019 09:33:33 am

Thanks for reading. I'm glad we share the same perspective .

Felix

27/7/2019 10:04:42 am

Awesome poem.
Simple and classic!

Though spiced with a few concrete images, the poem's simplicity, used to convey a salient message, is a special trait many of the conventional poetry I have read lack.

It is without equivocation a beautiful poem. It should be made to trend so many people, who are yet unaware, may know that females aren't the only victims of sexual abuses.

Tobiloba

30/7/2019 10:52:37 am

Wow. Good poetic piece. It brings to the fore the different measures our society views sexual harassment. However, since this is a poem, I don't think numbering the verses into 1,2 is necessary. Realistically too, when a lady touches a man's head, it's most probably one of the strongest emotional showings of affection as there should have been some affinity between the male and the female before the 'hitting', I wonder if it can then be considered harassment, societally speaking. The fact still remains though that men can be harassed, nice work man, nice work.

To The Girl, Who Keeps Hitting The Back Of My Head. ~ Praise Uyioghosa Osawaru (Wordsmithpraise)

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