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Domestic Violence

“This is the last time,

I won’t do it again” you say everyday

With tears streaming down my eyes

Your cold look says ‘anyways’

It deepens the bruise

Making the circumstances adverse

I cry in the corner like an unwatered plant

Consolidated, fading, agitated, only getting worse

You caged me, tamed me well

For a loyal dog is better than a scratching cat

You see the terror on my face as you hold the bat

I wonder if you think of mercy, or you have an evil laugh

Everyday I wish, today would be better

That you would caress me rather than cursing

But a normal life has became a dream, broken

Like that glass on the ground, shattered

Why would you throw it at me?

I see my reflection in a piece

Covered with blood,

Will I be nursed?

But now I will stop this war

Let the world see,

The battle shield my bruises have formed

Each scar will tell a story

Of the new and stronger skin that I own

As all the broken has been healed

From my heart to my bones

Those tears, they dried

These hands, they will stop

This mouth, it will say

These arms, they will fight back

These legs, they wont tremble

You dare not touch me now

Because I don’t need a saviour

I will save myself

From domestic violence

It will finally end.