Do They Ever Stop?

It's not the beatings that hurt 

For I can not remember the pain

I am sure that it is the hauntingly

Hateful verbal abuse that lingers

On to drive me insane

Do They ever stop?

Stop and think how their insidious

Words have poisoned my entire 

Life...

Do They Ever Stop and think how

Their words cut me like a knife?

Do They Ever Stop?