Words

Tell me, which are the words
that you’d like me to use,
those which bring comfort
or those which abuse

The words which you tell me from time to time
won’t hurt me at all yet they ruin my mind
words which deliver the bleakest of news
backed up by those colours in the darkest of hues

Words from the blackest night of the soul
words from the mouth of that awful hell-hole
words which can hasten the end of a life
words which mean nothing and failure is rife

Words that I often wish I could hear
seem so far away arrested by fear
words which begin with the nicest of tones
are words which will never leave me alone

Words which I wish I could hear someone say
words which will never just fade away
words which will soothe and calm troubled souls
are as far away now as my heart’s always known

© EV Rose 05/06