Louder Than Sound

Louder Than Sound

The silence of abuse

Can beat you about

It will bruise your eyes

And bloody your mouth

You will lie in bed untouched and unloved

There will be no good memories that you can think of

It will knock you down and you'll stay down for the count

The strong arm of abuse can choke you out.

It has big feet

And an arm that can reach

Your ribs, your back

And anything it can attack.

It will beat you as a grain of sand

and slap with its hand

that old silent devil

will put you on its level

you will lose your mind in emptiness and pain

it can push you over the edge and make you insane

no peace will you find in the home or away

the power of silence beats on you each day.

It has a stare made of knives

It damages lives

Over and over again, you will say, "it won't happen again."

Bodies get weak and you learn a new life.

You will never forget how you became his wife

He was charming peaceful and a man to desire,

When he touched you, it felt like your world was on fire.

He treated you so kind. that it blew your weak mind.

"Damaged women attract damaged men

You see all the signs and still, you pretend."

You either become a slave

Or end up in a grave
.
All you will have is your fantasy

Of why things can't be like they used to be

but he will only see hate

And you will deny it because this is your fate.

Long ago you decide

That's there is no place you can hide.

So you cry in silence

In the midst of the violence

Saying, it doesn't exist

Because he doesn't use his fist.