Power of Words

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Some of the greatest things in this life contain just one word

Love, freedom, and happiness they’re all the ones you’ve heard

The words that have in them more power than any person may hold

Words, that when they’re spoken, break everything that you’ve been told

Everyone needs love and everyone must find it

Before we’re too old, we have to search for it, or we’ll be left behind it

Because love can chew us up and spit us out

And we’ll tumble head over heels, and never doubt

That our happily ever after and our “prince charming’s” do exist

Because fairy tales are so much easier to believe than to see how it really is

When the clock strikes midnight, it isn’t just a glass slipper we leave behind

We leave fragments of ourselves for that one special someone to find

Hoping that if we shed enough of ourselves along the way

That our “true love” will pick them up and put it together, and carry us away

But there is no glory in that road because it just leaves us broken

Leaves us wondering where we lost ourselves, and why that word was never spoken

Love lies damaged in the pathway that we’ve left

And we go back to being Cinderella, with floors to be swept

So we try to find our own happiness, believing all the while

That we never needed another person to be the reason we smile

That we can learn to love ourselves, and that will be enough

Only, nobody ever told us something could be so tough

Because through the heartache we’ve endured we’ve been stained like glass

Each shard revealing a different shade of a very difficult past

And happiness was just a word, until we found ourselves in the dark

Still searching for someone to save our hearts from the places where love has left its mark

So we stumble through it, and hope we find a light

Something to pull us out, something to help us fight

The sadness that we feel that has been instilled upon us

By what everyone around us has told us

That these words mean everything, if you have them you’re really living

But if you find yourself without them, you find yourself giving

To strangers, to passerby’s who look in your direction

Hoping to please people so much so you can be the object of their affection

Hoping they can free you from the dark, hoping they have good intentions

But sometimes all anyone wants from you is your attention

And freedom was never given; it has never been a hand out

All of these words that we have heard so much about

They are binding and they are embedded in our heads

So much so in fact that while we’re lying at home in our beds

We dream of finding love, so that we can find our happiness

Like they’ve been lost all this time and without them we are worthless

We can become prisoners to these words, we can fall victim

Crying and bleeding our way through life, like an addiction we try to kick them

Because we know that they are dangerous, we know that they can hurt

Though we know love is something other than pulling up your skirt

Some people are willing to do anything to have someone say, “I love you”

Even if it’s for all the wrong reasons, even if you knew

That they were just words to them, and there was no feeling behind it

And we’re mad about the system, when we designed it

We’re searching for our freedom from a prison that we made

With words to keep us hostage within the walls in which we are chained

We must free ourselves from the words that we’ve created

To make a life seem useless if it is not defined, because in this world if you’re not loved then you are hated

Words hold more power than anyone can see

But if we can free ourselves from them, then we will forever be free.