Domestic Violence can be used against one person, or everyone in the household. But, it never fails to create trauma. Moving on is the hardest part of the healing process, but it’s not impossible. These poems convey this through different perspectives. All these poems show the lasting affects domestic violence that a loved one can cause. In the poem by Natasha Trethewey, Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath tells a story of someone that has witnessed the aftermath of domestic abuse. She speaks of her trouble in educating the world of domestic abuse implying with “don’t waste your breath explaining, again,” that her previous attempts became fruitless. It tells a story of a struggle to forget the horror she witnessed of her mother's
