NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #12

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry

The Dickinsonian oracle stutters (though with confidence):

A word is dead, when it is said
Some say -
I say it just begins to live
That day
(E. Dickinson, 278)

Take this bright opportunity to write an ars poetica as a life-affirming gesture to the written word! Begin the poem with whatever noun appears in your question to the oracle.