To Spill Words from a Bruise

I’m learning that one letter

Can make all the difference;

One letter, or

The lack thereof

Could burn down a dream or

Allow it to flourish;

Imagine what a word

Could do;

What a sentence

Could do, or

A paragraph or an essay or

A collection of them, much like

We call our constitution;

Imagine what one keystroke

Could do, or

The uniting of a million hands as we

Together grip the same pen;

If we could find it in us to

All consider our letters as they

Flow as blood from our hearts

To a page, we

Could write something willing

To be speckled with seeds;

As we learned from the Genesis story, all

It takes is the word; the word

Will become flesh, and the word

will grow into us;

Farmers used to burn down forests

So they could plant new life;

            Quite literally, they

            Encouraged the rising from ashes;

The earth was sprouted from the hand

Of the universe, and

The darkness we blossomed from is

What one could call

                                       Ash-like and bruised.

Bruises heal, but

In their healing they dance like a bird

Through a rainbow, twirling

Through the fading of colors; they

Show progress, and yet

The color never leaks

From by which it is bound; if

It is our words the blood

Of this nation is built from, perhaps

It should not be kept inside, concealed

By the shades of its progress, never spilling

Onto paper;

It should be echoed by a hand and

All the hands that join it

Upon a page;

If we were to poke the bruises

Of our fallen ideals that lay

Well-intentioned but haphazard

Upon tattered pages, not burned but

       Ready to sprout new life,

With the sharpened tip

Of a pencil, we could spill all

The letters we must come to realize

Will make a difference;

Imagine what a single word

Could do if

We all put our hands together

And wrote it 

Into something living and

Full of the letters that bleed

From our hearts;

Imagine.

I'm sorry this is so long, there were a lot of ideas I wanted to fit in here and I got a little greedy with how many connections and metaphors I wanted to use.  If you stuck it out, thank you so much for reading! :)