Domestic Violence Poem by James McLain

Domestic violence is an event that can often breed silence from those you love most,
those you need the most.

A silence that sometimes befalls out of confusion, fear of saying the wrong thing, anger, or just time needed on their end to make sense of it all.

I do not blame anyone for not knowing what to say.
But sometimes I feel that hearing anything was better than the silence,
Which allowed my mind to descend further and further
Into darkness and out of the light.