October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

 Song/Poem 6    by Susan Pearl
( written in memory of those who have died as a result of domestic violence )


The thought of those who have died from domestic violence comes to mind,
As a voice is formed in their memory saying together at this time
For we are a family across this land,
And when one is hurting we all should understand,
So we speak of their hopes and dreams that should have been,
And we talk about their time that was to be shared with family and friends.
There is no way to measure the pain or the loss,
Or to know the cost
They had to pay
When their lives were taken away.
So we are their voice now, and we are their tears
To cry out for all their missing years.
And we will remember every night and every day the hushed words they had to say.
Their lives they had to live,
The love they and we had to give
And we will remember, too, it was domestic violence that has taken them away.