more like shattered home.

My parents divorced when I was 16 but before that the home was broken through the horror of domestic violence. Every day it was like walking through the dessert in Iraq never sure if you'd step on a landmine and blow the peace to hell. My father abused my mother for 20 years, going so far as to try to kill her twice but she never had the strength to leave him because he swore he'd kill not only her but us kids and since domestic violence laws were either weak or non existent my mother and by extension me and my siblings were stuck, finally he ended up leaving her for another woman. My mother died 2 years later, never really knowing much happiness or safety. My father has since passed on as well and the bitterness for his actions still haunts me.

This song, like Christina Aguleria's "I'm ok" speaks to a part of my life that I've tried to deal with and moved on from but the pain still lingers just under the surface.