be water, he said
let your thoughts flow
into the arid fields
of despair and nurture
a harvest of hope.

be rain, she said
let your love shower
over hate in lost hearts
let your water wash away
the walls of the world.

be blood, they said
let it rage
through your arteries
and awaken
the dead cells of apathy.

be lava, i said
to the forgetting world––
erupt from the womb
of humanity and be
a river of compassion.