I will stick with love

― Martin Luther King Jr

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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It drags me down

this hate I feel for the oppressors

this hate I feel for those who would turn God

into an abusive parent

this hate I feel for the lies

and the misrepresentation,

for the greed

for the harm and hurt

inflicted upon the weak and vulnerable

it drags me down this hate

I feel for the haters ( but after all, what at times am I?)

this morning I walk in the early dawn

and listen to the birds sign

manic woodpeckers seem to be on every tree

the mountain looms

and fresh fallen snow lies on the ground

clouds swirl

there is grandeur everywhere

perhaps

It is time to lay down my anger

perhaps I need to stick to love

and travel

light