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Wednesday 4 May 2016

Whispers

If you're noticing a theme you'd be right. Family Violence in Australia, known better as domestic violence, is going through a trans-formative phase, where the law has overtaken the demand of family violence services.

What do I mean by services? Well basically, even though we have a new concept of family violence enshrined in the law, the people enforcing that law are still playing catch up. Who am I looking at? Police, but mostly judges and lawyers.

Of course there's plenty of police and lawyers, who understand it, but its a subtle thing and insidious. The way people like to characterize domestic or family violence is to try and talk about the perpetrators of family violence as having snaps or of being angry. I'm not trying to make people into monsters, but family violence is a cultural problem because the people doing it, genuinely believe they're entitled to do what they're doing and yes, all men out there, 9 times out of 10, the victims are women.

That is precisely because it is a cultural problem.

Just to clarify though, I do not claim to be a world renounced expert, so full disclosure there.

For more information about what's happening in Victoria, Australia, I recommend you take a look at the Royal Commission Website.

For now though, I shall share a poem I wrote this morning, as all of these delightful things were whizzing about in my head.

Whispers

She was standing right there
His whisper in her throat
Tying her lips in knots

She was laughing right there
All the while his whispers buzzed like hornets chewing out
Her ears

She looked silent and pale as
A stone cold soldier in a
Mausoleum
She shifted ever so slightly to the right
Her perfume subtle on an
Im-perceivable wind
WHORE
He whispered.


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