A Thousand Tiny Cuts

A THOUSAND TINY CUTS

A thousand tiny cuts

Treacherous

Numbing

Barely there.

 

A thousand cuts

To not feel confident there was

A sign too obvious to miss

Too hard to ignore

But a thousand cuts would do the trick

and did:

Spread the pain and you won't know

Spread the insults, you won't feel

Spread the lies and you can't tell

who you are

today.

 

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