Good Luck, Babe

You ask us

To exist in binaries

Male/Female

White/Black

Logic/Emotions

You tell us

These binaries are real

Valid

Scientific, even

And the implication is

One

Is always

Better

Than the other

We don't believe in binaries

Science

Doesn't believe in binaries

But if you insist

We'll tell you

Your binaries are backwards

Your hierarchy is upside down

You see,

You,

On the top,

Are the most twisted of all

And us, on the bottom

Hate you

We hate you

We don't laud you

We don't worship you

And we in no way wish to be you

We fantasize about your death

Your downfall

Your inevitable crash and burn

Because you won't listen to us

When we tell you

That your way of being is unsustainable

You are so arrogant

That we have no choice

But to let you

Find out for yourself

Alongside all the men before you

That your methods are untenable

No matter how cruel

No matter how many lives are lost

And lineages traumatized

You never win

You

Never

Win

So,

We'll let you make believe again

Reconstruct the binaries we've already deconstructed

Cling to your hierarchies that we don't buy into

You have built a house of mirrors

And we aren't interested

Some of us

Have learned our history

And know exactly what you're doing

And while we put our energy into creating the realities we want to live in

We have no choice

But to watch history repeat itself

A life of violence

Only knows a life of violence

You can't have peace

If it is so foreign to you

That you can't tolerate the quiet

The stillness

The space 

For new ideas

And ways of being

And so,

As I create my forcefield of peace around me

I let go

And I let go

And I let go

Every time the old way pulls at me

And makes me question my reality

My inner knowing

My values and priorities

I know you have a greater hold on others

And I may not be able to free them

But trust

They'll find their way

Because to live a life of conformity

Is suffocating

And that's the choice

That's the price we pay

Conformity

Is not better

Than railing against the system

And at least in railing against the system

I am connected to my humanity

The same can't be said of you