"A Story Like Mine" is all of our stories.

This past weekend&#39;s Women&#39;s March saw satellite marches all over the country, including one in New York City &mdash; right to the doorstep&nbsp;of Trump Tower. Amongst the many celebrities marching in the city&mdash;Yoko Ono, Whoopi Goldberg, Amber Tamblyn&mdash;was Halsey. The &quot;Bad at Love&quot; singer was asked by the the organizers to give a speech this year, and instead shared a heart-wrenching poem about the ways her own life has been impacted by sexual assault, including her&nbsp;miscarriage, which she&#39;s historically noted regret surrounding talking about. It&#39;s a story that any feminine-identifying person can relate to, and one that is in equal parts heartbreaking as it is empowering. Read a transcript of the speech or watch the budding activist deliver it below.

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&quot;It&#39;s 2009 and I&#39;m 14 and I&#39;m crying 
Not really sure where I am but I&#39;m holding the hand of my best friend Sam 
In the waiting room of a Planned Parenthood 
The air is sterile and clean, and the walls are that not grey, but green 
And the lights are so bright they could burn a whole through the seam of my jeans 
My phone is buzzing in the pocket 
My mom is asking me if I remembered my keys &#39;cause she&#39;s closing the door and she needs to lock it 
But I can&#39;t tell my mom where I&#39;ve gone 
I can&#39;t tell anyone at all 
You see, my best friend Sam was raped by a man that we knew &#39;cause he worked in the after-school program 
And he held her down with her textbook beside her 
And he covered her mouth and he came inside her 
So now I&#39;m with Sam, at the place with a plan, waiting for the results of a medical exam 
And she&#39;s praying she doesn&#39;t need an abortion, she couldn&#39;t afford it 
And her parents would, like, totally kill her 
 
It&#39;s 2002 and my family just moved and the only people I know are my mom&#39;s friends, too, and her son 
He&#39;s got a case of Matchbox cars and he says that he&#39;ll teach me to play the guitar if I just keep quiet 
And the stairwell beside apartment 1245 will haunt me in my sleep for as long as I am alive 
And I&#39;m too young to know why it aches in my thighs, but I must lie, I must lie 
 
It&#39;s 2012 and I&#39;m dating a guy and I sleep in his bed and I just learned how to drive 
And he&#39;s older than me and he drinks whiskey neat and he&#39;s paying for everything 
This adult thing is not cheap 
We&#39;ve been fighting a lot, almost 10 times a week 
And he wants to have sex, and I just want to sleep 
He says I can&#39;t say no to him 
This much I owe to him 
He buys my dinner, so I have to blow him 
He&#39;s taken to forcing me down on my knees 
And I&#39;m confused &#39;cause he&#39;s hurting me while he says please 
And he&#39;s only a man, and these things he just needs 
He&#39;s my boyfriend, so why am I filled with unease? 
 
It&#39;s 2017 and I live like a queen 
And I&#39;ve followed damn near every one of my dreams 
I&#39;m invincible and I&#39;m so fucking naive 
I believe I&#39;m protected &#39;cause I live on a screen 
Nobody would dare act that way around me 
I&#39;ve earned my protection, eternally clean 
Until a man that I trust gets his hands in my pants 
But I don&#39;t want none of that, I just wanted to dance 
And I wake up the next morning like I&#39;m in a trance and there&#39;s blood 
Is that my blood? 
Hold on a minute 
 
You see I&#39;ve worked every day since I was 18 
I&#39;ve toured everywhere from Japan to Mar-a-Lago 
I even went on stage that night in Chicago when I was having a miscarriage 
I mean, I pied the piper, I put on a diaper 
And sang out my spleen to a room full of teens 
What do you mean this happened to me? 
You can&#39;t put your hands on me 
You don&#39;t know what my body has been through 
I&#39;m supposed to be safe now 
I earned it 
 
It&#39;s 2018 and I&#39;ve realized nobody is safe long as she is alive 
And every friend that I know has a story like mine 
And the world tells me we should take it as a compliment 
But then heroes like Ashley and Simone and Gabby, McKayla and Gaga, Rosario, Aly 
Remind me this is the beginning, it is not the finale 
And that&#39;s why we&#39;re here 
And that&#39;s why we rally 
It&#39;s Olympians and a medical resident and not one fucking word from the man who is President 
It&#39;s about closed doors and secrets and legs and stilletos from the Hollywood hills to the projects in ghettos 
When babies are ripped from the arms of teen mothers and child brides cry globally under the covers 
Who don&#39;t have a voice on the magazine covers 
They tell us take cover 
 
But we are not free until all of us are free 
So love your neighbor, please treat her kindly 
Ask her story and then shut up and listen 
Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian&nbsp; 
Listen, listen and then yell at the top of your lungs 
Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues 
For the people who had to grow up way too young 
There is work to be done 
There are songs to be sung 
Lord knows there&#39;s a war to be won&quot;

Halsey's Speech at the Women's March Is Too Relatable

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