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.