Good Girl

dead girl is a good girl

good girl doesn't complain

good girl does what she's told

good girl moves to the side for me on a sidewalk

good girl likes it when I make a necklace around her neck

good girl turns me on when she's tied up in my bed

good girl asked for it

oh, good girl liked it too

like every good girl does

this is not a poem

this is a eulogy for all the good girls

this is not a classroom full of boys making jokes about my body 

and so if I don’t laugh? I am no longer the cool girl

I’m the girl who can’t take a joke 

this is not a poem

this is a eulogy for all the good girls

this is a call to action

this is breaking that glass ceiling with our teeth and nails

too often we are afraid of coming out

afraid of being judged 

afraid of being called a whore, a slut

the last time a woman stepped up as victim of abuse, it quickly turned into a witch hunt

they will call you a villain, a bitch 

but never a victim

this is not a poem

this is a eulogy for all the good girls

this is to the good girl who doesn’t want to associate him with anything so she wears the dress she was assaulted in

as a reminder that he doesn’t own any part of her

this is to say f*** you to all the sexual harassers who call themselves feminists

this is to reclaim everything men took from us

this is not just another rape poem

this is a eulogy to all the good girls,

it was never your fault

Aila Villas is a 4th Year Asian Studies Student from the University of Santo Tomas - Faculty of Arts and Letters. 

Photo Credits: Trisha Gaite