If I hate

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

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if I hate

I do not have the ability to see

the good in you

the possibilities in you

the sacred in you

if I hate

I have already given up

on change

and reconciliation and compassion

if I hate I can do nothing more imaginative

than violence

I have no better solutions than

lying

misrepresenting

excluding

judging

picking up a gun

hate is a colossal waste of energy

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Lord help me not to hate

I find it all too easy