When did you cease to love, then hate, yourself? <br />What terrible event? How long ago? <br />What slight misunderstanding, view of self, <br />that led to fading love, then bitter hate? <br /> <br />What silent judgment of yourself, believed, <br />without a witness, umpire, counsel, friend? <br />Where was that childhood friend you loved, called 'God', <br />who knew you better than you knew yourself, <br />and understood your every thought and act? <br /> <br />What black and vicious weed grew secretly <br />while all your thoughts - you thought - were of the Good? <br />What demon whispered sweet and viciously? <br /> <br />Alas, no clue as yet. The only way, <br />to love that self that never went away.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0226-self-hate-self-love/
