Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words can also hurt me .
Stones and sticks break only skin ,
while words are ghosts that haunt me .

Slant and curved th word-swords fall
to pierce and stick inside me .
Bats and bricks may ache through bones ,
but words can mortify me .

Pain from words has left its scar
on mind and heart that's tender .
Cuts and bruises now have healed ;
it's words that i remember .

Barrie Wade



Even if sorry is said ,
what done is alr done .
Words cannot be retracted ,
and th scars stay on forever .
No one knows whats th consequences are ,
always until it is too late .

This thus comes in th fact about
' I rather hurt you now than to hurt you later . '

(L) .