Words that sting

Words that sting;  
I know I've said them too  
When wounds that hide inside  
Find way to make escape  
In route among my tongue  
And say the cruelest things  
 
Your words; they do it too  
Fall heavy on my heart  
Make residence in space  
with poison roots that grew  
In precedence of place  
As twisted plots construe  
An ill, untimely fate  
 
And soon we are remade  
Only shells of former selves  
Single handedly, we shaped  
Our low and sadly state  
Poor choice in actions made  
But it takes words to drive the stake  
 
When words are turned to stones  
Whether thrown or left unknown  
They are prone to break far more than bones  
For actions cannot heal  
When words leave no repeal