Doors slam,
voices are shrill,
this is home.
We are family.
and in our gathering,
we pick each other apart.
The vultures wait at our doorstep,
fed with our torn apart egos,
and tears preserved in mason jars.
We are family,
and we knock each other down,
we are home.
constant battle zones,
we tear each other limb from limb,
and preserve the memory,
of what we once were,
or could have been.