--
I was never warned
about the girls with braids
and bubblegum
or boys with sticks held
in between their dirty hands
and stones weighing down their pockets
How their snake tongues
dripped with venom
degrading, belittling and offensive
how they hurt
because
they tell me it should
and they want to see me bleed
They never warned me
about the parts of my mind
that i could never mend
that i could
choose
what hurts me
and what doesn't
that empty words never hurt anyone
