Stick and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.      .      .

T  r  u  e,   h u h ?

Words, won’t hurt you at all.       .       .

they’ll maim,

mutilate,

humiliate,

and possibly stop you growing for quite sometime if ever,

the same again,

but no,
W   o   r   d   s        w i l l        n e v e r        h u r t        y o u .      .      . 

It was our parents and grandparents way of protecting us from bullies wasn’t it?

But again,

the biggest bullies we ever face

might not be those we perceive to do us harm

from the “OUTSIDE,”

but those who are the very closest to us,

wives,

husbands,

mothers,

fathers,

sons,

daughters,

grandparents,

nieces/nephews,

brothers,

sisters,

friends, or, yes.          .          ,

even     o u r s e l v e s !

I   WISH   THAT   YOU   WOULD SAY__________________________________________

We all have our individual ways

of filling in the most important blank

that often leaves us

B       L       A       N       K—–

E     m     p     t     y.       .       .

H O W   we fill in that Blank

is much more important than   W H A T

we fill in it’s________________________.

And yes,

we know it,

we know we know it,

we bet our lives that we know it,

but for the life of us,

we mostly act like we don’t know:

We can be that

Glorious    Blank    FILLER

for others.        .        .

I   WISH   THAT   YOU   WOULD   SAY.         .         .

Needs to be replaced with:

TELL ME WHAT YOU’D LIKE TO HEAR

THAT WOULD MAKE YOU THE

H     A     P     P     I     E     S     T.           .         .

and then do more than  listen,

or hear.        .        .

but    do    accordingly.          .          .

Absolutely,

YOUR   WORDS   ARE   POWERFUL        .        .

Use them as the balm that soothes i

nstead of the bash that bruises.          .          .

In   the   End,
we   will   remember   not   the   words   of   our   enemies,
but   the   silence   of   our   friends
–Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will. . .

hmmmmmmmmmmm.        .        .

Fill in

“T   H   E       B   L   A   N   K”

C o m p a s s i o n a t e ly .          .          .