“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
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I hated today!
I admit it
I heard the words echoing around in my skull
As I listened to him speak,
Why can’t you just die!
It is all too easy, this thing called hate
All to easy
But hate is a lack of imagination
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
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