words

Bitter words you speak to me,
Things said to hurt me and cause pain,
With bitter thoughts you try to break me,
And look on me with disdain.

Trying to harm me with words that bite,
Like salt in an open cut,
And continue to crush me with brutalness,
That festers in my gut.

A cruel word given here and there,
Is nothing new to you,
Because the things you say help to control,
And also to subdue.

Nine years of words bitter and cruel,
Makes me immune to them,
So try to use your words to put me down,
It is you that I now condemn.