Ghost of Bleeding Hearts

The heart is the strongest not when you steel it but wear it like armor, even if it only covers your sleeve.

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

Glory to the ghost 
of every bleeding heart
who challenges power—
without an altar of gold 
to rest upon, a thin blue
veil ensuring a monopoly
of violence, nor the pressure
of the world reserve currency 
in absence—with only grassroots
to their name as their sword 
and shield for the enforcement
of their blood etched rit…