Acid

A word can set a heart ablaze

With hate, with love

Or even with praise.

A word can give a spirit sleep,

The right word, the wrong word,

Any word can cut deep.

Choose your words before you speak.

Savour their taste ere you squeak.

Think of the heart where they'll be sent.

Gaggle a bit your own comment.

If the taste be not pure,

If it's acid for sure,

Then don't spit out but swallow,

Let the heart remain fallow,

Rather than sow a death-filled seed,

Your words, my friend, we do not need.

A word can set a heart ablaze

With hate, with love

Or even with praise.

A word can give a spirit sleep,

The right word, the wrong word,

Any word can cut deep.

Choose your words before you speak.

Savour their taste ere you squeak.

Think of the heart where they'll be sent.

Gaggle a bit your own comment.

If the taste be not pure,

If it's acid for sure,

Then don't spit out but swallow,

Let the heart remain fallow,

Rather than sow a death-filled seed,

Your words, my friend, we do not need.

If the taste be not pure,

If it's acid for sure,

Then don't spit out but swallow,

Let the heart remain fallow,

Rather than sow a death-filled seed,

Your words, my friend, we do not need.