Your Words

        Your words
        Are the ones I read
        When the seas get too rough
        When the times get too tough
        Your words are the ones
        That save.

        But on another day
        Merely one cycle of the sun;

        Your words
        Are the ones I fear
        Make me think you're not seeing
        Make me want to stop being
        Your words are the ones
        That wound.

        I don't know why you do this
        Waiver from one to the other;

        Your words
        Are the ones I know
        Will haunt me forever
        Do you think you're clever?
        Your words are the ones
        That burn.

        You say you love me
        But then why do your words hurt?

--Ryan Holman
April 10, 2000

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