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Words Alone Will Steal Your Soul


Did someone say I could write about ANYTHING?

That commission is hard not to abuse.

But I am not one to go on for 

hours and hours

just for the fun of it.

 

So let's get to the point.

There are words that are guns.

And we should not let them have so much

POWER.

 

For example... ehemmm...

LIBERAL

CONSERVATIVE

 

Chances are, one of those words made

you twitch just the tiniest bit.

Sad is it not?

Somewhere we must have programmed ourselves to extremes...

 

MUSLIM

JEW

CHRISTIAN

or even

ATHEIST

 

Don't deny that you probably let 

a certain tiny image

flash through your mind

for each of those 

heavy words.

 

SOCIALISM

TERRORISM

HOMOSEXUALITY

RACISM

SEXISM

TYRANNY

 

There are a bunch of letters that stand

for a bunch of words that stand

for a bunch of things that stand

for a bunch of ideas that 

people have forgotten the

true meaning of.

 

A final humble proposition:

Let stories be made of words, but

NEVER

let words be made of stories.

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