starting over

the statues
are suddenly offensive.
they've been there over
a hundred years.
the names on the building.
the carvings,
the pictures,
the books they read,
the homes they lived in.
we are guilty.
we are shamed.
let's burn the world
down and start over,
rewrite history.
pretend that nothing bad
ever happened.
that no one
has the right to be praised
unless he died
on a cross
and rose
from a grave.