A woman recorded a video of her singing from her hospital bed with a swollen face and eyes as a visual for those who suffer from domestic abuse.
The Huffington Post reported that Darrian Amaker posted a video of her singing an original song to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Facebook page with a message about domestic violence.
“A few days after Thanksgiving this past year, my love went straight psychotic and beat me brutally for 10 hours,” she wrote in the post. “He had planned it out. I was supposed to die. I survived or escaped, whatever you want to call it, and spent four days in the hospital, eyes swollen shut, wondering why.”
“I asked my doctor why I look different in the mirror, assuming it's a psychological consequence of savagery,” she said. “Softly, she remarked that all of my bones are bruised, quarter-inch ridges that I can feel. My face is different. It's one-half inch wider now.”
Amaker, who said she is a singer and photographer, set up a camera so that she could record her song about domestic violence and show her face.
“She recalls the night she left him after his last drunk attack,” she sang.
“I don't generally record videos of myself but it was the only thing I wanted to do in the hospital. I insisted. It felt important and a small triumph to make something," she said.
Amaker said her ex “has been formally charged by a grand jury with six felonies and faces many years as a prisoner.”
She ends her message with a call to others.
“Domestic violence is not a faraway issue. It affects people you know, cheerful people, people who sing, people who love. We the humans must be better, kinder, stronger. We the loving must not tolerate abuse. We the living must facilitate life.”
Watch Amaker’s video below.
