Words. Words take shape.
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Light
Dark
Do you feel the heart?
Can you see the mark?
That acts like a spark.
Words have...
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Truth
Lie
Can you see why?
The path it lays
Starts showing us why
Words have power...
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Love
Hate
Oh, great!
I’m starting to participate
Words have power to...
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Green
Blue
They even cast a hue!
That hue seems to cover over you.
Words have power to shape...
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Kind
Mean
Which one sounds clean?
Kind sounds bright
Are you starting to see what I mean?
Words have power to shape a...
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Order
Chaos
Words start to sound like a boss
Leaving behind a certain kind of gloss
Words have power to shape a heart...
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Stupid
Smart
Can you see the direction it shapes?
At least in part?
Words have power to shape a heart...
and a mind...
Don’t do this blind
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Cool
Drool
More than one way
I can say
More than one way I can say
The impact actually starts shaping today
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Gentleman and Scholar
Wild-man that hollers
Said day after day after day
Behavior starts shaping that very way
Words have power to shape
a heart and a mind
And impacts the way I see me
At this very time
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Loser
Great
Don’t hesitate
Who do you see
from what has been said
or hollered right into my head
What is the heart of the image you see?
Impacting who you are trying to be.
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Great
Great
Great
See it take shape?
Loser
Loser
Loser
Diminished.
Squished.
Confidence pushed.
Pushed down
Down into a frown.
Now I can feel like a poser
Even if I have good stuff to show ya’
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Amazing!
Insane!
Said with great vigor
I maybe start taking on
The shape of those words
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Challenging
Terrified
One way I feel like I can make an attempt
the other leaves me frozen
too scared to try
It makes me adverse to enter...
So why? Why try?
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How is it when I was young
People would say,
“Sticks and stones can break my bones
but names can never hurt me.“
But the hurtful words
are what remain stirred
deep in the heart of me
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For those lucky few who had words poured out filled with love and life and care
Somehow I notice a consistent bounce
of a bright that seeps out from their sight
Their face can actually shine
a little bit brighter
They even become a bit of a fighter
Trying to help others to see
See their value
See their worth
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They see a foundation crack
but somehow believe
that crack can be healed
Healed with newly poured words
Sealed right there
in deep care
They come stand right there
Right next to you
In the hopes of reflecting back the truth
The truth that you’re special
The truth that you are filled
With your own unique shine
The truth that you’re needed
in this beautiful world
everyday
all the time
Words selected
That are meant just for you
Words that have impact
At first, they start shaking
And then, they start shaping
your world
From the inside out
From the outside in
I can see the impact
Again and again
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Heal
Steal
Which word hits whole?
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Master
Slave
It’s like the words
Start forming right into a soul
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Cute
Capable
Confident
Those words sound great
Defined by traits that can illuminate
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Ugly
Stupid
Weak
Ugly
Stupid
Weak
Ugly
Stupid
Weak
Crushes my spirit
Until it’s the only part that I see
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Repeat
Repeat
Repeat
Like an echo
That carves
A groove in my face
At 4 years old...
It’s the tiniest line
But by 40 it’s etched
Like a crease by my eye
By 50 I think
I don’t want that this time...
I want to erase the line and turn back time
I want the redo
The redo to choose to
Turn up the line with a smile that
Knows this true value of mine
Turn up the line with a smile
A smile this time
that is worth far more every time
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There are people that see me
Like the true treasure I am
They come close and cover with
Words that act like sealer
Sealer that works in deep and
Actually becomes just like a healer
Words have power to build or destroy
I see it every day
More
More
And more
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Joy
Sorrow
These two at odds
Joy lifts higher
And actually floats my heart up above my head
My heart rises above all the sway of the day and gives me a knowing that there is a better way
This better way starts
With the new day
With the new words that start seeping
Now that I am aware of the power that peaks out and leaves an imprint with each little word...
...no doubt
I wonder if I ran an experiment
How long it would take
for this new joy to take root?
A day or a week or even a year?
How long until it would take
for the new words to rinse
the imprints of the old words away?
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For this experiment
let’s start with an inventory
Start paying attention
to the words in each story...
Which words build up?
Which words tear down?
What is the feel of
the imprint on a mind?
Today as I listen
to so many words
I could see them
pulling down...
...into another world
You cannot do it...
Too lazy...
Too weak...
Too selfish...
Too checked out...
Ug. What did I say?
Okay.
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Let’s run this experiment again.
Come beside me
I’ll show you how
I’ll show you how to go from
Too hard to try...
To Wow!
That is even actually quite fun!
Look what you did!
Look at what all can be done!!
At the start I never would have expected...
that I could learn that; how to do!!
Wow! That was fun! Can I try it again?
Can I drive the tractor?
Can I push the plow?
Can I pound the hammer?
Can I mix up the cake?
Can I make the rolls?
Can I be the expert around all the dough?
Can I cut that apple into a cool shape?
Can I give a speech that makes people cry?
Can I play some music with you?
Can we keep playing until we start to produce?
Can we produce something that sounds like a heavenly sound?
Can I put ink on a page?
Can I perform it on stage?
Can I put paint on a stone leaving the image from my mind imprinted like it’s been always known?
Can you show me more?
Can you help me to see all the more, more,
new, new, things I can think?
Now as I think
I’m beginning to see
That things start adding up
differ__ent__ly.
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Wait... I forget...
How did I get here?
Yesterday I couldn’t do half as much as today.
Hmmmm.
Think.
Think.
Think.
Oh yes. I remember...
We ran an experiment...
The experiment was intentional
About shifting...
It began with shifting...
Just
One
Little
Word
