One Word
Location
One Word
One word
That’s all it takes
To get in your head
To get in your heart
One word that so easily slips from your lips
One tear
She walks with her head down
Alone
Thinking
Thinking about the words
The words that they said
That’s all it took
For her to get to this point
The point of breaking
The point of ending
Ending it all
And all while she wished
Wished that someone would have noticed
A teacher, a friend, a someone
To remove the pain
To help the pain
To wipe away that tear
But teachers didn’t notice
A friend didn’t care
And a someone didn’t know
And all it took
Was one word
One word is all it took
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jwiener
In this poem you really express the power that words have, with the repetition of "one word" throughout. A lot of the time, people focus on the positive effects just a few words can have, but your poem describes how it works the other way, too, to produce negativity. It might only take a word to hurt someone, but it can also take just one to make them feel better. Words truly are weapons, and they can be used to cause pain or to heal wounds. How we use those weapons is up to each of us, and your poem inspires people to use them for the better.