~~ A HUGE IF~~

 For Poets and Storytellers

Friday Writings ~~ Hammer / Teeth / Blooms

photo ~ Lori Crawford

if i held a hammer

i would not raise it for war

but strike a steady rhythm

on the door of every heart

i would use my teeth, voice, mouth

to bite through the overwhelming silence

speak whenever weary souls are forgotten

smile broadly when morning returns

if i carried blooms

i would scatter them 'cross barren fields

not as trophies of victory

but as promises planted in our soil