love letter to a sister

My mother's child,

First know that I love you my sister, it hurts to see you this way.

To see you make yourself so small, compromising yourself; becoming a shadow of the woman that I know you should be.

Settling for so much less than you are worthy of; to appease him....a man for whom nothing will ever be enough, who fails to realise that control and love cannot co-exist.

I find myself unable to talk to you. Unable to bear your brokenness, the death of the fire in your eyes.