What is love?
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is not jealous.
Love is not boastful.
Love is not anger
Love is not jealously
Love is not pain
Love is not controlling
Love is not hateful
Love does not leave marks, bruises or pain.
Four women a day are killed by domestic abuse in America.
It’s a fact no one wants to talk about.
Who wants to hear or believe that the sweet, church going father and husband, dressed in a nice suit, with a good job comes home and beats his wife and children?
Nobody wants to hear it...except the victims.
We don’t have a choice.
We live it.
The women who hold on hope that their man would eventually change or the ones who were too fearful to ever speak out.
I will speak out for you until you can.
I see you. I see you be called names, tears welling in your eyes.
I see you pull it together for your children in the hopes they don’t see the pain in your eyes.
I see you. I see you wear long sleeves to hide the bruises.
I hear you making excuses to your friends and family.
I hear you making excuses to your friends and family.
I see you, smiling and brushing off the concerned comments about the marks on you.
I see you, covering for the man you love even after he beat you.
I see you, beautiful woman.
I see you, because I am you.
Most of my life I have been lied to and abused.
Abused in every way.
I will not be silent anymore.
I will break the silence.
This cycle of abuse in my own life ends now.
Ladies, speak out. Speak truth.
It’s time to be done being a victim, and become a victor.
If you, or someone you know has been a victim of domestic violence please call the confidential Domestic Violence hotline at 800-799-7233
