Words or bullets!

You know sometimes words are like bullets cutting your heart into a million pieces. Words like love, patience, kind, tender-hearted, or even sweet are like chocolate that indulges the heart and makes you want to sing carols or cry. It's nice to hear these compliments once in a while from people who care about you. However, words like abomination, vitriolic, distrust, depression, and even the unspeakable; cancer. As soon as these single bullets enter your heart, they will never ever leave you. When you use the word love, butterflies and a baby with an arrow (cupid) comes to mind. A smile is quickly developed on your face and you feel like a little child inside. Makes you want to reach the sky and scream on top of your lungs. Screams of joy, of course! However, words like abomination brings dark colors to mind and sickness. When I hear this word, I think of a mother sitting in a chair burying her face in her hands and wearing a black dress. Her daughter is standing mighty over her and the mother can't help but ask for forgiveness. As stubborn as the child may be, she leaves the mother in her sorrows. Also, I see a crow perching on a tree screaming songs of joy when one has been betrayed. During the Salem Witch Trials,  the witches would begin to cry when the city was in joy. On other days when war was threatened against the city, witches would begin to brew their potions and lure people into their homes. So, in other words, do not allow words to be bullets. No matter how painful they may be pretend the bullet missed your heart and went right through the empty space. That's what I always do...