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Reflections

Hate

Posted on November 16, 2016 | Posted by Annie Saunders

Hate looked me in the eye—

and I gazed back at it.

 

Fear hunted me from behind—

and I longed to disappear from it.

 

To this world I dwell in

with Corruption,

 

I stand on my Rock and

scream,

“Difference!”

 

But still Hate watches,

Fear still bites,

and Evil lurks in my night.

 

Of Light and Dark I am

composed.

 

Of Good and Bad I merely

suppose.

 

What am I if I adhere

to Hate’s stare?

 

 

What am I if I let

Fear gnaw at my rear?

 

I draw my swords, Truth and Love—

to tackle that which

strikes my heart.

 

Let my anger be a strength

that spears,

and not a fuel that consumes.

 

Hate looked me in the eye

Fear hunted me from behind

 

That I cannot deny.

 

But Hope and Courage came

near,

and Mercy made everything

unfair.

 

—Hannah Ellen Saunders

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