Your fists are not weaponsin arguments. It’s your mouththat does the most justice.Open your lips...

Your fists are not weapons

in arguments. It’s your mouth

that does the most justice.

Open your lips and let the words

fly from your tongue to show

that you will not go down

just because there are bruises

along your cheekbones.

Don’t believe it when they say

that their anger got the best

of them. Do not let them

convince you that you

had it coming. Your body

is not a target, your skin

is not the enemy. So when

they leave you limp,

and they leave you to believe

that you’ve deserved this

all along, show them that you

are stronger than their hands.

Show them that you

will not surrender in this war

that they consider to be love.