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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