HOW DID YOU GET HERE?

How did you get here? A place where the very words you speak could be life threatening.....glass is thrown, wounds are open and you're feeling all alone. How did you get here? The arms of the one that loves you is the same arms that hurt you. Broken promises are in great multitudes as your inner thighs submit to fulfill a raged heart, so that you can get some sleep. Your mind is in chaos and your heart is above the surface of suicidal thoughts. How did you get here? You were once a beautiful dove in the pasture and now you feel like the crow that roams in the fields. A picture once said that you were loved, respected and beautiful. Now the only memories you have is of shame, guilt, anger and defeat. How did you get here? Money was not enough to allow you stay away from this being that smothers you with concern and yet kills you as each minute that passes by. The thought of a happily ever after filled the pages of your heart. How did you get here? You vowed to never make the same mistakes that momma and grandma made. Your lover would be the likes of Prince Charming and custom made just for you! How did you get here? Now that's not important! Your dreams have been overlapped by their dreams and your goals are in the back of your mind because the place that you are right now requires you to settle for the moment, and pray that you see your future. How did you get here? Love doesn't hurt! You've been taught that but yet the one you love has a problem that you feel you can help solve. My dear chile, how did you get here? It started out with sweet conversations, flowers and giggles in the middle of the night! You felt that intuition but still believed in the power of love. How did you get here? That's not important! The tears that you shed have allowed me to see the beauty for your ashes that God left on your doorstep. How did you get here? I recognize that place myself, it took awhile, but I figured it out and so can you. Grab hold of who you are and rebuild from there. How did you get here, is not important! The cry out for help that is ignored and the diagnosis given is that you have arrived to a place that if you want out........GET OUT!!!! How did you get here and where are you going? Each day place your heart in the hands of those that will cross the rivers with you and whenever you feel helpless, they will help you carry the burning torch to the other side. BREAK THE SILENCE and raise your voices and know that how did you get here isn't important.......the road map to where you're going stretches beyond what you could ever ask for, think or imagine.


This is for a victim of domestic violence. My heart goes out to you and the words that I type are from my heart to yours. I found myself asking this same question. I began to answer that question and from that moment on, my life has been brand new!

HELP BREAK THE SILENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!!!!