
05/06/2025
"SACRED VIOLENCE"
They call it tradition
but tradition should never taste like blood.
Should never sound like a child
screaming into cloth
as steel replaces innocence.
Infibulation.
A word dressed in syllables
too soft for what it means.
They cut.
Not for health.
Not for healing.
They cut to own her.
They strip her of what makes her whole,
then stitch the wound closed
like her body is an error
God forgot to erase.
A slit remains,
barely enough for blood,
not enough for breath.
She urinates through pain.
She bleeds in silence.
She heals in fear.
Legs bound for weeks
tied like truth they’re trying to hide.
Her stillness mistaken for obedience,
but it’s trauma wearing a quiet face.
And when she “belongs” to a man
he reopens what should’ve never been sealed.
He splits her back into pain
so he can call it pleasure.
Love?
There is no love
in tearing open a wound
just to satisfy a myth.
And still
we stay silent.
We let it pass as “custom.”
We whisper,
"That’s how it’s always been."
But no one asks:
What happens to the girl
after the bleeding stops?
She grows into a woman
haunted by her own body.
Urinary tract infections,
fistulas,
infertility
and still they say:
"Be proud. Be pure."
But purity should not come
with a price tag of pain.
And dignity
shouldn’t be carved out with a blade.
The worst part?
It’s not the men.
It’s the women
mothers, aunties, midwives
the same hands that once rocked her
now prepare the knife.
So NO!
feminism is not about dishes
or splitting bills.
It’s about this.
About girls
being cut for control.
About silence passed down like inheritance.
This is where the fight begins.
Where the noise must rise.
Because this is not sacred.
It is not holy.
It is not her destiny.
It is violence
carried out
in the name of protection.
An oxymoron wrapped in culture.
A war dressed as ceremony.
And we must call it by name.
Say no to silence.
Say no to pain passed off as pride.
Say no to infibulation.
Say yes
to her freedom,
her wholeness,
her God-given right to feel safe
in her own skin.
🖋️ Dee.