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Power
March 9, 2015
It rips me from the inside
Gouging at my soul
No amount of pleading
Will make the pain stop
Rounds and rounds of ammunition
Loaded and fired again
They have power over me
Now that I've fallen
Nothing will stop
The relentless attack
My wounds will never heal
Always open and showing my ordeal
Words have power over me
A power that I cannot defeat
Forever my scars will show
From the wounds I could not treat
© Fallon K., Baldwin, NY
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Mela said...
on Jul. 27 2020 at 11:28 am
Wow! Lolog! how do you do this? You really inspired me€€
This is such an important message to share. Cruel words ravage people emotionally, and I love that you've shown that here. Your verbs are powerful, and the "rounds and rounds of ammunition" metaphor strikes at my heart as well. I don't think the poem had to rhyme, and I wonder how it would have sounded had you been unconcerned with rhyme, but overall, well done.
I was really inspired to write this piece when one of my friends was crying after P.E. when someone called her fat. The next day my sister came home and cried for an hour because a girl had called her names, beating down on her because she was intelligent. I was astonished to see how hurt they were by simple words. Later on I myself was verbally bullied, and I realized the scars from words last far longer than physical wounds.