only words

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
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