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Sunday heard me crying.

Brittany Talissa King
2 min readNov 26, 2021

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If I screamed it would kill your

heart is beautiful and pure I love how

I couldn’t take the weight of your body on me, suffocating

Joy I found with only you, willing and ready

we fought every day, your hands around

my waist you’d whisper a kind secret in my ear and

Your hands around my neck yelling how much you hate

Me and you cannot live without each other’s love, me and you

cannot live in each other’s lives. Together, we are violence and victims

We’re the cutest couple alive! You’re the best man I’ve ever met. I am

afraid for our daughter in my stomach, will you stop hitting me now

that you’re a dad I see such a change in you. You’re everything I wanted

and I’m so scared of you. Sunday heard me crying. I told her “Mommies and daddies argue sometimes…”

I think about leaving but where will I go?

Is that why you picked me?

I’m the love of your life.

Because no one loves me?

You’re the love of my life. I know you don’t like hurting me when you’re

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Brittany Talissa King
Brittany Talissa King

Written by Brittany Talissa King

Writer/Journalist. I explore race relations, social issues, & social media through history and pop-culture. IG: @b.talissa X: @KingTalissa, Journalism MA — NYU.

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