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The Importance of Words

Poem #8

By Ashlyn HarperPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Your words have a heaviness in this world

They can lift the spirits of millions

Or demolish a life with a fragmented sentence

They can burn through all the evils

Or create evils that never existed

They can be used for good

Or turned into a war just by the phrasing

Your words have a responsibility to them

They can help raise an educated child

Or create a monster within society

They can never be taken back once spoken

Or deleted from a mind once grasped

They can pierce through the skin with revulsion

Or motivate the world for the better

Your words are sharper than a knife

Your words can be a menace or a vigilante

Your words shape entire lives

Your words will still live on this world when you pass

What do you want them to say?

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About the Creator

Ashlyn Harper

A chaotic room of stories. My curiosities lead me in all types of directions, creating a chaotic writing pathway. I want this place to be for experimenting, improving my craft, and sharing new ideas with anyone willing to read them.

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