Sticks and stones will break my bone
But words alone have fractured souls
Words, a thousand pictures
A thousand cuts and sores
Death by sword
A deafening cry of an infant
Read in an instant
Like a tempest temper
Words that tore out atria
Words that brought light
Words that brought life
Words that divided day from night
Words that gave the hopeless might
Words to arouse
Words to harken
Words that roused hellbound men to war again
Words meant and unmeant
Words that explain
Words we lament
Words that say a lot and nothing at all