Word disease

Words.

People tell children that words can never hurt them, but words leave the most indelible prints of all. They are the harbingers of feelings, seeds for a world of hurt.

Nightmares spring up from them like weeds gone wild.

They inflate blood pressures like sour balloons.

Burrowing in like word disease they develop a life of their own.

Then eat away at our sanity until it looks like Swiss cheese.

The next miraculous discovery should be a cure for unwanted, embedded, un-erupted, and impacted words!