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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FROM VICTIM TO SURVIVOR…
By Amanda Ingram
THE ULTIMATE WEAKNESS OF
VIOLENCE IS THAT IT IS A DESCENDING
SPIRAL…
BEGETTING THE VERY THING IT
SEEKS TO DESTROY
INSTEAD OF DIMINISHING
EVIL, IT MULTIPLIES IT
THROUGH VIOLENCE YOU MAY MURDER THE LIAR.
BUT YOU CANNOT MURDER THE LIE, NOR ESTABLISH
THE TRUTH.
THROUGH VIOLENCE YOU
MAY MURDER THE HATER…
BUT YOU DO NOT MURDER THE
HATE.
IN FACT VIOLENCE MERELY INCREASES HATE…SO IT GOES.
RETURNING VIOLENCE FOR
VIOLENCE MULTIPLIES VIOLENCE…
ADDING DEEPER DARKNESS TO A NIGHT ALREADY
DEVOID OF STARS.
DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE
OUT DARKNESS…
ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT.
HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE…
ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT.
WHO LIVED IN A DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE HOUSEHOLD
WHOSE PARENTS WOULD
CONSTANTLY FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER…
AND WOULD
CONSTANTLY FIGHT
OVER HER…
SHE AWOKE MANY
NIGHTS AND
TRIED TO DROWN OUT THE NOISE OF
THE CONSTAN
T FIGHTS…
AFTER ALL…WHO
COULD HER AND
HER SIBLINGS
TURN TO?
HER MOTHER FOUGHT FOR AS
LONG AS SHE
COULD…UNTIL ONE
DAY…IT WAS TAKEN
TO FAR…
AND A GUN WAS PUT TO HER MOTHERS HEAD…
THIS IS THE
STORY OF…
ME…
AND MY FAMILY
AND HOW AFTER EVERYTHING
THAT HAS HAPPENED…
WE SURVIVED.
