No Shame: In My Game

Conquering Shame: A Poetic Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

In this episode of the 'Teens Draw Near to God Poetry Podcast,' host Shirah Chante addresses heavy themes of abuse, shame, and healing through poetry. She presents her latest poem, 'No Shame,' written on Valentine's Day 2025, and discusses how society often wrongly places shame on victims rather than perpetrators. Shirah uses her personal experiences to underscore the importance of returning shame to where it belongs and encourages listeners to draw closer to God to find healing. The episode also stresses the power of forgiveness and love as central tenets for overcoming trauma.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:51 Introducing the Poem 'No Shame'
02:09 Reading the Poem 'No Shame'
04:12 Discussing the Poem's Themes
07:39 Personal Reflections and Experiences
12:20 Call to Action and Conclusion

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Transcript

 Draw near to God, don't fear. Draw near to God, don't fear. Draw near to God, don't fear.

Welcome everyone to Teens Draw Near to God Poetry Podcast. I am your host, Shirah Chante, Relationship Artist. Healing Hearts Through the Arts and Helping God's People with Relationships. Oh, it's my joy to be here with you this fine Saturday. So, where are you today? Come on, let's go. Let's talk about New poem today.

It's not coming outta my book, Jaundiced View. Wow. I wrote a poem on, wow, I wrote this on Valentine's Day, 2025. I'm looking at my phone notes and it says two fourteen twenty five, so I recently wrote this one. This is a new release . Actually like, but exactly a month ago, just about. And so it's called no shame.

So welcome teenagers. Welcome parents of teenagers, youth coaches, youth pastors, youth directors, anyone who really want to see teenagers grow up, live out their God. given destiny. Amen. All right. Well, that's you. You are in the right place. And this is the place to be right here for the next 15, 20, 25 minutes.

How about that? Is that, is that okay? Gonna just talk about some poetry, figure out how to get close to God. and stay there. And so we're going to use this poem to help us. I'm going to read the entire poem. It's called No Shame. I love this topic. And we'll, you're going to hear about why in just a moment.

I'm going to read the entire point. Then we're going to go back line by line just to see how the words, how the verse in the poem can help us draw near to God. That just means get close to God, be intimate with God. All right, here we go. Here's the point. No shame. There's no shame in my game. Shame on them.

Shame on the witches that witchcraft him. Shame on the child molesters.

Shame on the freaks. Shame on the people. Who pray on the week. Shame to one, shame to all, shame to you, shame to y'all. Oh, you want a ball? Oh, you want a ball? Take the fall. Slip down. You go nice. Landing slide. I know you don't think I'm going to do what you want me to do. Then, you know, me finally. Now I know.

You too. And that is the poem. No shame. Like I said, it's still pretty fresh. So some of the, the meter and the rhyme I'm still kind of working with. All right. So. No shame. There's no shame in my game. I am so fed up with people trying to put shame where shame does not belong. There's no shame in my game.

Shame on them. Shame on the witches that witchcraft him. So what I'm talking about, and I believe what spurred me on to write this poem is Because when people are hurt, when people are marginalized in society, because of some, uh, mishap or some misfortune that has happened in their life, we tend to look on them like, Oh, look at that person.

Look at, Oh, look at, Oh, Oh, Oh, what, Oh, what a pity. Oh, Oh, they're so misfortunate. Oh, Oh. And it's, and it's, and it's so nauseating because the very people who go around and act like they're so much better than people who have been abused, misused, molested, raped, or just mishandled by society, especially as children.

The sin against is what my professor who taught me, who, who trained me, who helped heal me by the word of God and through her knowledge that God had given her to heal people who had been, uh, raped, molested, uh, abused, taken advantage of. She told me this word. She said, these people are sinned against, meaning they didn't do anything to deserve this.

No child does anything to, to deserve being raped, being fondled, being touched, being kissed, being molested. Yuck. Gross. What kind of depravated society do we live in when people? Resort to using children for sexual stimulation. What kind of society is that? It's not, it doesn't seem like this society should exist.

And so there's no shame in my game. Shame on them. Shame on the witches that witchcraft him. Shame on the child molesters. Shame on the freaks. Shame on the people who prey on the weak. It's time to take that shame, ball it up and throw it back to where it belongs to the people who rape children, have sex with children, molest children, rape other people, take advantage of the weak, the greedy, all of that.

That's their shame. See, so see, it's like a double edged sword. They cause the person. To, uh, grow up with this shame because of what they did to the person. I'm talking from experience here. I've been abused. I've been raped. I've been Uh, molested. I have lived this life. I understand what I'm talking about and this is what happens to little children who are taken advantage of the, the adult or whoever it was, the older person who molested them.

They cause this person to go into this shameful, like, existence, like, Oh, this happened to me. This happened to me. This happened to me. I'm a bad person. Oh, And that is not even true. The person who caused the harm is the bad person. It's their shame. So not only are they doing something wicked to children, they're also Epstein, you know, we all know the Epstein story.

This is the, this is what happens. They put the shame on the people, but we're going to take that shame back and we're going to throw it back at Epstein. We're going to throw it back at P Diddy. We're going to throw it back at all the child molesters. We're going to throw it back at all the rapists. We're going to throw it back to you.

It's your time to live out the shame that you caused so many others. Shame on you. Shame on the freaks. Shame on the people who prey on the weak. That's your shame. It's, it's, no, it's not mine. I'm not shamed at all. No, no. Not, zero percent. Zero. It's your shame. Shame to one. Shame to all. Shame to you. Shame to y'all.

However you want to say it, we have failed. Children of our day, of our world, of our society, the human traffickers, picking up children off the street so they can go sell them and have sex with them. What kind of world is this? You can't take your child to the park, people, human traffickers sitting in the park trying to wait until you have a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, have to turn around to get a diaper wipe or, or whatever.

So they can come snatch her child. What kind of world is this? How dare we say this is a beautiful world.

That's a lie. That's not beautiful. I, I used to say there's a scripture in the Bible that says, uh, he, who does not regard the day to the Lord does not regard it goes something like that. That's a paraphrase. Like if you're going to talk about the day and how beautiful it is. Then you need to mention God because he's the only thing that's beautiful in this world.

And so I used to go around saying, Oh, thank you, Lord, for this day. It's a beautiful day, Lord. Cause I wanted to, to magnify that scripture. I wanted to uphold and uplift that scripture. Oh, thank you, Lord. It's a beautiful day. Thank you. Now, I don't say that anymore. I say it, but I add something. I say, thank you, Lord.

It's a beautiful day for children not to be molested. It's a beautiful day to kill all the human traffickers. It's a beautiful day for children not to be raped. It's a beautiful day for children not to be murdered. Hmm. Oh, you want a ball? Take the fall, slip down. You go nice landing slide. I know you don't think I'm going to do what you want me to do.

Then you know me, finally, now, I know you too. So this is like the unveiling, the uncovering, the unraveling of the personality of the person who has been abused. It's like, they've been this closed, sheltered person, hiding this horrible fact that it's not even theirs to hide. It's not even their shame.

Throw it back. I am calling out everyone who has been hurt, molested. Raped who say it. That's not your shame. It's time to put shame where shame is due. There's a verse in the Bible that says give honor to whom honor is due, but we're going to give shame to who shame is due. And it's not you. If you're the one who were raped, if you're the one who were abused, if you're the one who were molested, if you're the one who were taken advantage of, if you're the one who were kidnapped and human trafficked and sent to senators so that they can have sex with you, it wasn't you!

My god. My god. How do people look at themselves in the mirror? How? When they do such deplorable things. Um, um, um.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. No shame. I pray for all those who have carried shame around for far too long. Oh. Ha. I bind that shame and I loose it from their being, I loose shame from their soul, I loose shame from their mind, I loose shame from their heart, I loose shame from their being so that they can have the strength to go out and say, this is what happened to me.

Shame on you, uncle. Shame on you, dad. Shame on you, neighbor. Shame on you, teacher. Shame on you, pastor. Shame on you, evangelist. Shame on you.

Now you know.

No, you don't think I'm going to do what you want me to do. Then you know me. Finally now, I know you too.

I know. Who you really are. I used to go around the person who molested me when I was a child, which was an older stepbrother. I used to really have this hope like for humanity. And I still do. I love, I love people. And I always say that at the end, at the end of my show, that's one of the greatest commandments, the second greatest commandment to love people as you love yourself.

So I love people. I want people to get healed and whole, even the child molesters. But it's time, it's like, it's enough, enough. I'm not going to carry your shame around. You did it, not me. I'm not the one who should be shamed. It's you. Yeah, I'm tired of that. So, but I used to go around when I was younger and I wanted to, uh, make an excuse or, or justify what had happened to me, uh, being fondled, being raped as a, a little girl, and I would go around and say, Oh no, people are good.

No, people, people are good. And I would like deceive myself and, and, and keep telling myself that people were good. When finally the Lord had to wake me up and say, no, people are not good. There's only one who is good. And that is God. Jesus says that. It's a scripture in the Bible. Someone came to Jesus and said, Good teacher.

They were going to ask Jesus a question. And Jesus stopped them right there. He said, Whoa, whoa. Why do you call me good? There's only one good, and that is God. And so the only good that any human being shows forth on this earth comes from God is because they are tapping in to the personality of God. And that's where that goodness is coming from.

If you have God living within you, then you have some goodness to show forth to the earth, to the world. And the way you have God living within you is by accepting his son, Jesus Christ, into your heart. He died for you. He rose again. He's coming again to save this world from its shame,

from its torture, from its torment of little ones.

Yes, Lord. Thank you. Say, I believe in you, Lord. I believe in Jesus. I believe he died for me. I believe he rose again.

I'm not taking on shame anymore. I throw it back to the oppressor, to the abuser, to the molester, to the human trafficker, to the rapist. That's their shame. It's not mine, Lord. And I forgive them, Lord. I forgive the rapists. The child molesters, the human traffickers. I forgive the ancestors who have sex with their own family members.

I forgive because you Lord, you said, if you don't forgive, I'm not going to be able to forgive you. I want you to forgive me, Lord. So I forgive them in Jesus name. Amen. Lord. And, uh, remember to love God, love you and love people.