Hey Sisters: Let me tell you why you don't understand

You don't understand why, you don't understand why we stay. You don't understand why we stay through the shoving and the name-calling. You don't understand because you don't listen.

You don't listen. You don't listen when we tell you, when we tell you the truth. You don't listen when we tell you that we stay because we love him, that we think he is a good man at heart, that he is really sorry and wants to change. You are so busy trying to get us to leave, that you drown our voices, with your earnest cries to get us to see things your way.

So we never get to speak, to finish our thoughts, to go the next step, to really see for ourselves why we stay. Did you ever stop to consider that you really don't know best. With your feminist analysis, and your theories of male violence, did you ever stop to think that you don't know best.