you used your powerful voice to shame and insult me but when you stopped my quiet and shy voice shamed me in your place kept repeating all the mean things said and now i hate me but it was easier when the words came from you but now that they are coming from within me the pain is worse because i believe my quiet shy voice than your powerful one Because your words i could ignore sometimes But my words hit straight home Because your words i could shrug off most times But mine are curved onto my very being And i now doubt everything i do I doubt who i am Because of the words within