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Break the silence, come out of your shell Don’t hide your fears and pain, when the world out there is waiting on you to tell How he abused and beat you purple and blue In-laws finding a reason to always blame you How you looked on when your children endured the pain How he used your teenage daughters for his sexual gain You turned a blind eye to his affair upon affair Unemployed and three children to take care Too scared to leave him, where would you go? The silence you keep inside of you will forever grow Pain is not like dreams that come and go If you don’t break the silence, no one will know The scar on your left cheek, when he threw you with a glass The forehead with a porcelain vase For the sake of your children you had to be strong Always taking the blame when he is in the wrong You have a thousand reasons to run away Yet you don’t have the courage and prefer to stay Too scared of not making ends meet? Afraid you’ll end up in a shelter or begging on the street? Thoughts of killing him runs through your head Suffocating him while he lays drunk on the bed Or dousing him with petrol and setting him alight When he is about to pick up another brutal fight Slitting his throat with a razor sharp knife Begging for your mercy to save his life All these thoughts running through your head But you still prefer to stay instead Then again, you have a house but not a loving home Loneliness and sadness overtakes you when you are all alone Will you stay or will you go? A decision only you will know Will you endure the suffering ‘til he breathes his last breath? Finding solace only when you lay down his wreath? Or do you leave this life behind? To a bright new future you will find So break the silence, come out of your shell Help is a call away, just waiting on you to tell Written by: Farah Diba Pastor
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