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| Femme de Dieu 2006-09-11 ch 1,  | abuse"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me..." a childhood jingle that perpetrates and perpetuates a very insidious falsehood! I agree...words can and do hurt more than any physical abuse. For the bruises, scrapes and scars from the latter are an outward symbol to oneself and others that this was a dangerous relationship...one that should be fled from. But WORDS?!? They just wiggle their way into our psyches...they bounce around inside our heads...wending their way to our hearts, and forever altering our own perception of ourselves. Try as we might, we can never completely extricate them. They inflict such damage as to be irreparable. It is awful to have that indiginity suffered upon ourselves. All the while reading your poem, the reader thinks this has been done to "YOU" (and it probably has at some point or other)...but the last stanza...OUCH...really brought it to a VERY heart-rending conclusion. WORSE than being left with those "invsible scars" ourselves is when we realize that WE have inflicted the same upon another. I do feel for you on this one...it is the most horrendous thing in the world to have let "spill" words that should have never been made audible (or more especially, written, as is sometimes the case with we poets). Truly, Tourterelle |
| Warg 2006-08-16 ch 1, | abuseLovely snapshot this.. Strong moment, interlaced with a soft longing, nostalgia and a very simple something.. err whistlfullness. Don't have to add that i loved it, u already know ^__^ .. |
| Theory Of The 4th Dimension 2006-08-16 ch 1, | abuseNicely articulated. This can bring some serious reflection of somewhat, for the truth in this cuts deep as you've said. |