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Emphatically Cliché

There's that saying,

"Sticks and stones may break my bones,

but words can never hurt me."

 

It's true.

 

Cause words, words don't just wound.

A single word can bring utter devastation or long-awaited salvation.

No. Words never hurt. They transform.

They create, they grow.

We are all, after all, just big fleshy piles of words.

We're defined and redefined and undefined until we can't defy what we are.

We are words, searching for words, living on words,

waiting for words, to bring us to words.

Words can be violently beautiful and poignantly painful, and powerful, and poetic,

and pure.

 

Sticks and stones are toys.

Words are tools,

and tombs;

They get tied together 'til tongues get twisted and truth is torn,

but they can be pulled apart 'til they perfectly portray a point...

And my point is this,

that life is nothing more than words,

just words well-worn.

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Written by
jamie-waldrop
26 / F / American
Published
Jul 4, 2012
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