When one is full of hatred <br />They feel totally justified in it <br />They feel their wish to destroy and punish <br />They feel it puslsate in every fiber <br />As they grind their teeth and seethe <br />And the feeling escalates <br />And dosn't leave <br />Dagger up their sleeve <br />From morning until eve <br />The feeling increases <br />And takes over sane thought <br />Darkens everything <br />And forms a black hole <br />In the heart they left broken or stole <br />you feel turmoil <br />and your blood aboil <br />but your victim is your foil <br />you wish to scald and burn <br />in your cauldron of hot hateful oil <br />All the light goes out <br />You only scoff and pout <br />Forgetting what life is about <br />As profanity you scream and shout <br />In the vengance that you tout <br />Becaue you don't wish to bear the pain <br />and let them get away with sin <br />Instead of striving to forgive <br />You let hatred in <br />But at this very minute <br />That you're in it <br />you somehow cannot see <br />with clarity <br />that you've let it win <br />It's taken who you are <br />It's taken who you could be <br />But you don't realize <br />The cost or it's severity <br />But you cannot live <br />You cannot be free <br />as long as hatred <br />consumes and won't let you be <br />Someone mentions God <br />and you say you don't blelieve <br />but God is there to love you <br />and won't ever leave <br />But you need him now <br />And you've got to unerstand <br />He's given you freewill <br />You've got to reach for his hand <br />And the moment you do <br />He'll rally around you <br />And show you light <br />And see you through <br />Though you've blamed him too <br />he'll guide you to forgiveness <br />And help you find the real you <br />the one you somehow lost <br />before your heart froze in the great frost <br />before you realized the truth <br />Of hatred's cost <br />Only when you're born anew <br />Will you begin again to find the real you <br />The one you have lost <br />Before you choose consider this: <br />Love and Hatred cannot coexist <br />By choosing one <br />The other you will miss<br /><br />JAMES T. ADAIR<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hatred-35/
