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My story inspired by this prompt on the Light & Shade challenge.
Every show of indifference, every unkind remark.
Every act of petty spite causes my heart to cool and harden.
Violence isn't the only form of domestic abuse.
Cuts and bruises heal, so, in time, do broken bones.
But the heart, once frozen is harder to repair.
The beating centre shrinks and atrophies.
Eventually even glass will shatter.
Pressure from outside, more unkindness or spite.
When it shatters it means death.
Pressure from inside, the small part still beating.
Fights back when love returns.
A baby grandchild will shatter even a glass heart from within.
To renew love & life.
Having endured lots of domestic abuse in my time, it is very true that the verbal is the worse. Other forms have a chance to heal. The verbal tends to embed in your psyche forever.
ReplyDeleteDamage to the psyche seems to heal a lot slower. I'm glad there was optimism at the end. Lyssa M x
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