Sticks and Stones

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There is nothing more powerful than words
Speech, what you say out your mouth, can kill.
It can conquer.
It can hurt.
It can uplift.

A child molested and living in fear
Can think if she say the words, someone will die.
This man molested Maya Angelou.
She didn’t talk for two years.
She was afraid if she told someone,
Something bad would happen.

One morning my husband got up and say …
“You are no earthly good.”
And I cried all day.
Words can hurt.

If I’m angry
And casually I say,
“I’m gonna kill that girl!”
Of course I don’t mean it.
But what if someone overhears?
And they are not in tune with reality.
And they act on it.

That’s how words can kill.


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