Editing

Words like loaded promises
Filling up the empty space
With white noise,
Stained with the colors
Of destiny, and hope,
Or something so much greater

A comma here,
Or a period there.
A slash or hyphen-
Straight, like an arrow-
To bracket in
The hope in us all,
A limited boundary we’ve never needed
But can’t live without

Till the heart breaks open,
Spills out lifeblood brighter than
Any rainbow
And marks the page with the greatest silence ever heard
The loudest silence known to man;
Only a pen tip against the page