Beaten Love

On domestic violence...

Do fists remove kisses

Hateful words

A cooling balm

Over a romantic river

I grab your arms

To implore you

To understand

What I demand

Can I shake some sense

Into you

Can I beat my words

Into soft skin

I am struggling for words

To say

So I show them

With blows of bitterness

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