"Your fists are not weapons in arguments.It’s your mouth that does the most justice. Open your..."

“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
 them 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 you start to believe


that you’ve deserved this


all along, show them that you


are stronger than their hands.


And show them that you

will not surrender in this war


that they consider to be about love.”

- "Get away while you still can," - Colleen Brown