Blight
Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Hard seeds of hate I planted
That should by now be grown,
Rough stalks, and from thick stamens
A poisonous pollen blown,
And odors rank, unbreathable,
From dark corollas thrown!
At dawn from my damp garden
I shook the chilly dew;
The thin boughs locked behind me
That sprang to let me through;
The blossoms slept, I sought a place
Where nothing lovely grew.
And there, when day was breaking,
I knelt and looked around:
The light was near, the silence
Was palpitant with sound;
I drew my hate from out my breast
And thrust it in the ground.
Oh, ye so fiercely tended,
Ye little seeds of hate!
I bent above your growing
Early and noon and late,
Yet are ye drooped and pitiful,
I cannot rear ye straight!
The sun seeks out my garden,
No nook is left in shade,
No mist nor mold nor mildew
Endures on any blade,
Sweet rain slants under every bough:
Ye falter, and ye fade.


The Benevolent One
Matshona Dhliwayo
 
If you hate the poor,
do not ask The Divine One for wealth.
If you hate the despised,
do not ask The Divine One for honor.
If you hate the oppressed,
do not ask The Divine One for freedom.
If you hate the lowly,
do not ask The Divine One for influence.
If you hate the fatherless,
do not ask The Divine One for children.
If you hate the lonely,
do not ask The Divine One for friends.
If you hate the orphaned,
do not ask The Divine One for parents.
If you hate the divorced,
do not ask The Divine One for a family.
If you hate the weak,
do not ask The Divine One for strength.
If you hate the helpless,
do not ask The Divine One for might.
If you hate the timid,
do not ask The Divine One for courage.
If you hate the helpless,
do not ask The Divine One for power.
If you hate the average,
do not ask The Divine One for excellence.
If you hate the common,
do not ask The Divine One for nobility.
If you hate the meek,
do not ask The Divine One for authority.
If you hate the gentle,
do not ask The Divine One for fortitude.
If you hate the confused,
do not ask The Divine One for understanding.
If you hate the perplexed,
do not ask The Divine One for insight.
If you hate the ignorant,
do not ask The Divine One for knowledge.
If you hate the senseless,
do not ask The Divine One for wisdom.
If you hate the anxious,
do not ask The Divine One for joy.
If you hate the hopeless,
do not ask The Divine One for faith.
If you hate the downtrodden,
do not ask The Divine One for peace.
If you hate the forsaken,
do not ask The Divine One for love.

The Hate Consumes
Jeremy Bassett

I was blissfully ignorant
Before I met you
Oblivious of the hate
You constantly threw
I foolishly thought
Things had changed
That people were more caring
Not constantly shamed
But you opened my eyes
To a world full of hate
Who's sole purpose
Is to humiliate
Everywhere I looked
They tore someone down
All acting like
They wore a crown
Mistakes were no longer
A means to grow
But were instead
An invite to throw
Cruel insults that stung
And still bleed
All for the purpose
Of laughter and glee
If feelings were hurt
They chose not to see
Because it was all about
Look, look at me
I can't seem to get back
To that innocent place
Not after I've seen
All the hate that takes place
I used to give everyone
The benefit of the doubt
But I can no longer
For fear, they'll tear my heart out
What scares me the most
Is I now feel it in me
And dread the day
I become what I've seen

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women, those gentle doves, treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. Alexandre Dumas

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