Domestic Violence

If you have read anything about domestic violence then you’ll probably have recognized that women are not permanent victims with a pathological need to be hit, women who have been in an abusive relationship learn about survival, and about retaining a sense of self. In order to deal with what has happened to them many survivors turn to writing about their experiences - sometimes in a poetic form.

Just Another Domestic

Not another knuckle punching its way into my head,

Intruding on my consciousness.

Another bang on the wall,

“Keep it quiet. People need their sleep”

People need themselves,

But others take it away with a right or left hook.

A bunched up fist, stamping out identity

In another domestic

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