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Hate always hurts the hater. 

Sometimes

Sometimes
By Franklin Price
6/19/2016

Sometimes you know we've gone astray
That's right, you and I
You know we'll do it more than once
Again before we die

Opinions by another
May give us room for thought
If hate's included in it
In the end it is for naught 

For history shows that hating
Is not where our minds should be
Especially in the U.S.A.
The land for all and for the free

All are  created equal
It's what our founders had to say
With rights to make decisions
To decide which is the way

Thinking hateful of another
Or a people as a mass
Makes us less the person we should be
Something of a pompous ass

The killings and the massacres
By radicals, future, past
Are not about religions
But by people holding fast

Hating others just because
They don't believe as you
And think that they are better dead 
The Muslim, Christian, Jew

To rid the world of radicals
That exist there in all three
Need all to work together
To make a safer world for you and me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Turner Avatar
June 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM
Amen! Wonderfully put my friend.
Price Avatar
June 19, 2016 at 5:46 PM
Thanks Daniel, please visit again
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