These hurtful words

This is about being hurt. About how insults remain while physical wounds fade.

I am seething with anger and hatred

 

Tears stream down my face, which now swollen and red

 

Why do people say such cruel and unkind things,

 

When they know it will never stop hurting?

 

I'd rather be punched then insulted

 

The bruise will fade and go away

 

But the words will seep into my skin, and

 

I know I can only hope and pray

 

That those nasty words will cease to exist

 

I'm ending this poem with only this,

 

While cuts and bruises go away

 

These hurtful words will always stay.

Author's Note

This makes me cry, anybody else feel this way? :(

Reviews

[Draven]

All my life my Dad beat me, and in turn, I beat my brother. I never ment the things I called him, and each time my fist crashed into his gut, or my hand went across his face, I wished I could be harming myself instead. I hurt him in ways I cannot understand, and inflicted him pain that will never go away. I only did it because Dad broke me, and I needed to break someone else to feel stronger. I cannot tell you how to erase the pain, but this is why people hurt others: because they hurt too.

[Miranda Richard]

How true. I used to get bullied a lot and would take my anger out my writing it out. I would also hurt other people's feelings, because I didn't know what to do with my own. It's the things like that, that I wish I could take back. Thank you.

[Draven]

Well, the good thing is that even though you cannot take it back, you are still able to undo what has been done. You can be a new person and show them the love you didn't before, and over time, with that love which I can feel flowing within you, you can seal any wound you have ever inflicted.

[Miranda Richard]

You speak so deeply, you should put the lines above into a poem. Anyways, the next day I usually would attempt to make up with them. I'm pretty moody, and was regularly forgiven. Your words were so kind and helpful, thank you.

[A. V. Madison]

I feel this way! All the time. Especially when people call me a 'ginger'. I just want to scream at them, "Who gave you permission to be a d****e?!?" But the topic was executed with class, and was definitely a job well done. Stellar. Rating 100/100

~M

[Miranda Richard]

Thank you, and ditto.

[Celestial Witch Child]

I've felt this way a lot...

[Miranda Richard]

Me too (sometimes.)

[Mir]

I totally and completley can relate to this! Sad, but true. :(

Great wrtiting though!

[Miranda Richard]

Thanks!