“The Organization” by Emily Klish

The Organization must guard against a revolution

It ought to be everywhere,

all day and night

It watches...

Listens...

Lies in wait...

A cancer that seeps

It devours their mortal lives

Little by little, piece by piece

Until nothing but dry, emotionless husks remain

It steals generations

Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters

Allows them to rot in the shadow of its power

Like cockroaches, they remain expendable and helpless

Caught in a cycle of endless hell

They will never be free

Emily Klish is a first-year LSWA student for the 2022-2023 academic year at the University of Michigan. Creative writing has been one of her passions for over a decade. While she mostly writes prose, Emily has recently delved into poetry as well.