One of my songwriting collaborators and I are writing a song that we hope will inspire children who are victims of abuse to speak painful truths to caring people who will listen and take action to help protect them. To help them to understand that they don’t have to deal with it alone; that there are many more adults who care than there are people who abuse children.

We hope it helps to educate survivors of abuse that people who do such harmful things often try to protect themselves by lies, intimidation, and attempts to make their victims feel worthless and powerless.

We will be pleased if our song can inspire even one child to get help and begin to heal by speaking their painful truth and by doing so shine their beautiful light on the shadows where their tormentors have been hiding.