by Miss Misfit

Hangman

When I was a little girl

Hangman was just a silly game

Until I understood how our words are just as effective at killing as a noose

Crushing a throat with ease

Siphoning air from the lungs

Ending a life as easily as a sentence

With a period.

~ Quill

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