These hurtful words

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

I am seething with hatred

 

This anger will burn until I'm dead

 

Why do people say such hurtful 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 revolted

 

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.

Reviews

[Casanova3]

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.

[Rayne Droplette]

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.

[Casanova3]

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.

[Rayne Droplette]

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.

[Alice Patterson]

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

[Rayne Droplette]

Thank you, and ditto.

[Newspaper Skeleton]

I've felt this way a lot...

[Rayne Droplette]

Me too (sometimes.)

[Miranda]

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

Great wrtiting though!

[Rayne Droplette]

Thanks!