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Love and Hate

LOVE is raw
Really raw
HATE is raw
Really raw
Both with four letters
Bind and break
Through opposing tunnels…

What you love you can hate
What you hate, love
Love is white
Hate is dark,
One letter short
As meaning drifts
Into the gory folds,
The wrinkled face
Of the old antagonism,
Hate and spite
Love and sight
In the web of life
The complex whole
Holding forth
The  onyx set in sharp
 Thorns and  sherry morns


LOVE is raw
Really raw
HATE is raw
Really raw
Both with four letters
Bind and break
Through opposing tunnels…
What you love you can hate
What you hate, love

Love is white
LOVE is bloom,
raw bloom
dyed in red-bluey wood
entombed in lyrics
on the lips of oohs and ahhs
at half crescent evenings
However, brief or long
the acapella lives on


Hate is dark,
One letter short 
of its kind twin, light
Dark, a boring trudge
on the gloom scaffold 
littered by sighs and hisses

Always, Hate's meaning drifts
Into the gory folds,
The wrinkled face
Of the old antagonism:
Hate and spite
Love and sight
In the web of life
The complex whole
Holding forth
The  onyx set in sharp
 Thorns and  sherry morns

Love ruses and
Hate bruises

Copyright © Ndubuisi Martins | Year Posted 2015