This House is Already Burning

Audre Lorde once rightfully said 

that the master's tools will never 

dismantle the master's house 

but this house is already burning.
A tornado spinning in the living room,
lightning striking in the attic.
The kitchen cluttered with rotting fruit,
poisonous water sputtering out of the sink.

In the basement there is but one light
and all the people who still recognize it’s there

fight over the warmth.
The backyard is littered with shrapnel
and corpses. We have to be
very careful where we step.
Death is no stranger here,
and certainly no one's friend.

This house is crumbling 
under the weight of the contradictions
built into its framework.
This blueprint was never meant to last.
And we must work to build anew.
To be the architects of our future
we have to learn how to reject 

the static definitions of our past.

-Liz