Hate

Hatred is irrational
raw and spiteful
venom unleashed
from deep inside
where old hurts have been cherished
and polished
to be flung back
with added bile
red
purple
black
incandescent glowing
ready to explode

Hate can be extinguished by love
but it will take so much love
that much love will be melted and burned away
leaving hurt and bruised lovers
while the hating still smolders
awaiting the final damping down
with even more love


(Just because it is difficult to overcome hate with love doesn't mean it is impossible or that we shouldn't try. But we must not underestimate how costly it will be....)

Creed

I believe in God
the father almighty
most of the time
but sometimes
I wonder
what life would be like
if I didn't.

If there was no moral origin to the universe.
If there were no origin in love
and no destination in love
just a rabid struggle for supremacy
without rules
in the short years of life.

If we lived and accumulated
and bonked and fought
and hid and cried
knowing that nothing meant anything
and all was ephemeral floss.

If the big brother house
were the model for life
and the animal instincts
we have mostly civilised
became rampart serpents
in the evolutionary struggle
of not so sociable
social Darwinianism.

As we trudge onward
on our return journey
to the primal slime....

I'd prefer to believe in God!


(The image accompanying this entry is one of the series of engravings by William Blake illustrating the story of Job)