For Victims to have Safe and Fulfilled Lives

We cannot go on
Indefinitely
Acknowledging
That Victims
Are Compromised
And Stand back
And Watch Them
Flounder
We must Help Them
To mete out Dignified
Constructive Lives
Leaving People
With Their Rights
Protected
As it Presently Stands
It seems Victims are Lost
In a Health System
And Legal System
That stands back Dispassionately
And then Judges the Victim
We are almost as Hostile
To Victims as We are to the Perpetrators of Crime
It is Wrong
And this Anomaly
Must be Addressed
If Victims of Crime
Are to Live Wholesome
Full Lives
They Deserve More
Than to be Medicated and Sneered at
By the Professionals that are Overseeing
Their Care
At Present
There still tends to be an Ethos
Of Enmity
And Hatred
Filtering through the Health System
That is not a Healthy Environment
To Achieve Mental Health
for their Clients
Psychiatry must Reflect