I came across this https://www.restored-uk.org/partner/cneda/red-chair/ today.
I got there via an interview with Claudine Robers, a former human rights lawyer, who has published ‘Violence against women’, in the study series Cover to Cover, which explores six stories of violence against women in the bible.
That took me to https://www.restored-uk.org/ a Christian charity working to raise awareness of domestic abuse, support survivors and equip the church to do the same.
And this took me to The Red Chair Project, seeking to raise awareness during the UN’s 16 Days of activism against gender-based violence.
Have a read.
Red Chair
The invisible, red chair
sat screaming, pleading, bleeding
and a priest walked past on the other side, preferring his pew.
So too, a curate saw the chair and with a moment’s pause
moved on, and unfolded a meditation stool.
Then later in the day, after many had almost seen and chose to pass,
a red-ribboned refugee stopped and saw
and she wept with the chair til sundown.
Not Too Poetry 