People, when wounded by words,
replay those words endlessly
and down they sink
into themselves.
Wise to remember:
words are only words.
No need to swallow, too,
the feelings that encase them.
Naoki Higashida, Fall down 7 times get up 8, a young man's voice from the silence of autism, p101 (Sceptre 2017), translated by David Mitchell & Keiko Yoshida
