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Hate

The face of it

Feeding on an acquired distaste

At different differences

With life kept in a suspense

At someone Else’s expense

Other than your own

And did some individual unfairly force himself on you?

Show me how and then hate is proper

Or did some individual take unfair advantage of you?

Show me how and then hate is the rebate

But all these other rules, all made up

To forward hate among fools

I drink not of its cup

Instead, I’ll celebrate

Take a closer step to relate, accept, embrace

All a step removed from mere tolerance-sullen face

That twilight as before the dawn-For MERE TOLERANCE is a vampire

Meant to suck the blood out of fairness’s charcoal charred fires

With a sharp toothed bloody kiss

Acceptance is celebrating a life

Tolerance is stagnating a life

And Justice (being blind) is coming for you too-mere tolerance

To drag that vampire kicking, screaming, shrieking, hissing

Into the sun