If words don't scare you,

You haven't met the right ones,
The ones who take an indifferent
you and roll you into
a sobbing mess in the corner of your room.
or maybe take that sobbing mess and
tighten around to form a brace
around your neck to
hold your head
up as you step ahead.

If words don't scare you,
You've probably seen,
from a distance,
ones who can
 and hurried
up and built a wall of maybe
sass and laughs
so you can keep pretending.

If words don't scare you,
because actions have scars that scabbed
up cages,
You're going to find words
someday that dig deep enough to
set you free.