Sticks and stones

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Sticks and stones may break my bones

But words can also hurt me.

Sticks and stones break only skin

While words are ghosts that haunt me.

Pain from words have left its scar

On mind and heart that's tender.

Cuts and bruises now have healed

Its words I remember

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