Typewriter Series #1700 by Tyler Knott GregsonFeel free to share...

Typewriter Series #1700 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Feel free to share this, as widely as you wish.  I think we need it now, more than ever.

Text for Tired Eyes:

Stitches, we need, across
the wounds of us.  Needles through
state lines, border splits
that won’t stop bleeding.
Don’t we have enough red
in the stripes on this flag?  
Pull these threads tight, yank
from the edges, from the oceans
until we merge into one,
one, again; one, if for the first
time.  Pull it from the mountains,
from the sun soaked deserts,
pull it from the lakes that lead to
rivers, from the beaches
that let saltwater meet
fresh.  Pull it from the bonds
and bold promises we started
from, pull it from the fractures
that formed along the way.  
Stitches, and soft kisses on
the scars of us, it’s stitches
we need, and we must all
give what we have to give.  
I have words, and so I will
give them as I’ve always given them,
only new, only focused.
I will whisper healing words,
or all I know of grace,
and I do not expect
they will be enough,
but they will be honest,
and they will be simple.
Maybe, only maybe,
they will be a start.