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 these words
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
Its words that I remember...
