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(Warning the following may be triggering, contains the topic of religion) The law speaks softly in the voice of a father in the dry ink of men who never bled this way It says: Take her home and bind it to his call it order call it repair her body becomes a depth ledger a torn contract stitched shut with vows she never spoke the wound is renamed marriage so no one has to look at it he took her twice once in the dark, once in the daylight when the elders nod and the price is agreed upon she stands there like a field after invasion told the plow has made her useful told that she should be grateful for ownership instead of abandonment. Justice passes her like a man crossing the street to avoid a scream "God's law" they say "order" they say but her silence is the loudest verse. A mouth sewn shut so a world can sleep without calling it violence. 🦋🦋🦋