Member-only story
The secret police
Poetry
Trigger warning: Animal abuse
We let you into our home
We allowed it
We didn’t know we had a choice
How many families feel the same?
We allowed you power over us
We didn’t know how to fight it
You came like the secret police
investigating a spiritual crime.
We are hidden from society
No advocates have we
No organizations investigating the enforcers
No one lobbying on our behalf.
We took whatever you gave us.
We had no recourse.
If you decided we were OK, then we kept our place
in God’s Kingdom.
If you decided that we weren’t, then we lost everything.
Did you know how much power you had?
Did you think of it as power?
Did you enjoy just a bit how we bobbed and curtsied and offered you coffee?
… Did you think of it as your right?
Lord knows that anyone who stood up to you
