Words are powerful weapons.
If not used properly
They can do major damage.

Each negative word is a chain.
When it is spoken
Each and every dry syllable
Is molded into a link
And each link
Forms a chain
Which becomes
One of the chains that binds me.

Each chain
Constricts my breathing
And I can't wriggle out of its grip.
It weighs down my heart
And I can't get up.
I can't breathe.
I can't speak.
I can't blink.

These chains that bind me are unbreakable.
They are unstoppable.
And I can't get out
Of these chains that bind me.

They're powerful.
Agonizing.
Torturous.
Suffocating.

These chains that bind me
Are put on me by others
And I don't have the power
To break free.

I don't have the power
To escape these wordy chains that bind me
And perhaps I never will
Because I haven't been given permission to escape.

If only things didn't have to be this way.