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RAPED

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RAPED

by

Karen J. Layer

If what I believe is true
Then my body is
The wrapping paper
Cradling the gift

This body mere container
For the beauty held within

If what I believe is true
You're thinking that this present
That belongs to God
Belongs to you

No matter what you do to me
Remember you can't win

To strip the bow away

To rip my wrapping paper skin

God spare me now

That's all I'll pray

Don't let him rape the gift within

Don't let him take my soul away

If what I believe is true
After you're done
Thinking you've won
I'm lying here alive

Naked, but only aware
Of how my spirit's bare

If what I believe is true
My gift within
Is unbroken
I'll pick up all the pieces
And thank God
You couldn't break
This part in here
(The soul I bear)

To strip the bow away

To rip my wrapping paper skin

God spare me now

That's all I'll pray

Don't let him rape the gift within

Don't let him take my soul away

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change)

Remind me now

When I feel broken

torn, ashamed

I'm naked

Not sure who to blame

Remind me that

I'm still a child you see

Remind me now

Help me pick

These pieces up

Ribbon, paper - everywhere

Help me, wrap me

Fix

God please fix me...

If...

If what I believe is true
My body was just wrapping paper
Cradling the gift

This body mere container
For the beauty held within

If what I believe is true
No matter WHAT he did to me
No matter what he did to ME
He never raped my soul
The gift within

He never raped my soul
The gift within

He didn't win
He did NOT win