Slut

At the age of thirteen,

I heard the word slut for the first time.

I didn't know what it meant.

So I asked my mom.

She ws appalled when the short word tumbled from my innocent lips.

"Where did you hear this?"

 

A boy at school called one of my friends a slut.

All because her boobs went a size B to a size D in what seemed like a night.

Her shirt was too tight.

Therefore, she was a slut.

 

I never expected that word to be said so mant times in the following years.

 

A word boys use for girls who refuse to fuck them. 

The star quarterback called the head cheerleader a slut because she refused to date him.

Where does it end?

 

A girl at school was raped.

It ended in her being called a slut.

All because she lost her virginity to a rapist.

 

It was like a day at the fair when people found out the exchange student was a bisexual girl. 

She was followed by the callings of 'slut' and 'whore' because she was attracted to both sexes.

The bullying became so bad that she left the school. 

I myself missed her when she left. 

She was an interesting person who was full of life despite the bullying. 

 

Then they met the girl who was not biologically so. 

A female to male transgender who was prettier than half of the girls at the school.

I simply found everyone at my school to be jealous.

Because she wouldn't date anyone and she was prettier than most of the girls there. 

 

I was called a slut...

All because I wore clothes deemed too sexy for a girl my age.

Yet I was a prude for keeping my virginity until the age of seventeen.

 

When will people realize, the word slut?

It does not describe a girl who won't fuck you.

Actually, 

when will they realize the word slut doesn't describe anyone, for that matter.

 

To the girls with the confidence to rock that sexy outfit,

To the young girls going through puberty,

To the girls who have been raped,

To the virgins who refuse to have sex,

To the sexually promiscous girls, 

To the girls who are a part of the LGBTQ community, 

YOU ARE NOT SLUTS.

To me..

I am not a slut. 

This poem is about: 
My community

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