Common things

She was fourteen
A child but they did not see it that way
Married her off-
A large family
No money
It was the normal thing to do-
Shipped her off with a glory box of linen and broken dreams
He was older-
Wise and experienced
Only married her because they told him too
Took her from one forgotten land to another
She stopped dreaming
Forgot from where she'd come from
There was no point thinking of what was gone
Bore him a child,
Nearly killed her-
He didn't care
Not for her
Not for the child
He wanted a boy
Two years on
She looked more like an old woman than a child of sixteen
She had a baby-
A boy
He was discontented
The boy was not right
Belted her to prove it was her fault
She bore him no more children-
The days passed
He disappeared
The little girl was no longer-
This is her story
Sad
But true