Love and Hate

I tend to ponder Love and Hate And how to each I do relate For acts of hate have vision clear And acts of love often fear But with anger comes debate As with controversy lust does equate While pain is spread by such indifference And from passion in abundant instance Not hard to see that tolerance lacks While a necessity in forgiving acts And so it has come to decide my mate With no weakness found in hate But with love strength unseen For within ones heart it tends to glean So in my mind these words collide Urging me to choose a side So with judgment my thoughts do race Pulled towards love, its redeeming grace But with darkness hate does team And with light love does gleam Form a circle these two great beings And give more depth to all feelings So to choose would be unfair Depriving life of half its flare For in us all, both do reside Shifting thoughts and shaping pride