Words

What are words?

Reflector of emotions
Soothing balm, healing our wounds?


Or is it


Minions of lies
Destructive weapons, feeding our hatred?


Yet they are neither


Good nor evil
Pure or tainted


So
Please, please
Tell me what are 'words'


Because

By them
I'm hurt
By them
I'm healed
By them
I fell into the abyss
By them
I rose to the heavens


The power thet held over me is immerse,
Greater than any grip
That I felt in all my years
Sharper than any knife
That pierced my heart


I am so helpless in face of it
Like a babe in the midst of danger.
Unable to defend my mind against
The painful assault.