Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words will break my confidence
Words will break my trust
Words will linger in my head
Until who I am
Becomes who I was
They say words won't make me bleed
That words won't scrape my knees
But words will make me touch rock bottom
Drowning in my tears created seas
I was a child when I first started being bullied
The words started out small
Children being children
They said I wouldn't remember it after all
But words are like tattoos
Permanently engraved on my being
Because words become beliefs
Once you're forced to start agreeing.
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