Hate

Hate,
For How it burns us,
as we hate,
as we fear,
as we divide,
as we break,
as we Live to learn,
hatred serves us fire,
not to warm us but to burn us alive,
and to a crisp we harden.
We judge, we hate, we forget
ourselves, one another,
and how these diversities could connect us.
Hate is heavily dark & twisted,
And serves us many lessons,
it teaches us a lot of ourselves
And one another, be stronger than hate,
Be wiser than its charms,
And though it tempts us everyday to fall,
Choose to rise above,
Choose compassion,
Choose love,
Choose to learn,
Choose to not be disposable,
Choose to not be divided or weakened,
Choose to illuminate not die burning ourselves
while we are so very much alive and can change...
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