Love & Hate

Hate is like electricity

Following the path of least resistance

Arcing through a Neanderthal mind

Like a lightning bolt in an instant

Anger is infectious

Viciousness stuck in a loop

It contaminates and impregnates

Like mould on rotten fruit

Prejudice is a pollutant

Toxic, noxious and corrosive 

Mixing with hate and anger 

Touch paper igniting the explosives 

Love is the blood of life

Irrigating like the Amazon basin 

The sparkplug of the heart

Synapses firing in imagination 

Wisdom washes surfaces clean

Quenching hot tarmac in the rain

Hostility and resentment becoming

The loathsome beasts slain

Acceptance couples with love

Buttercups blooming on a barren lawn

The building blocks of tolerance

Radiant rainbows after electrical storms

Peace is natural balance

Plankton blooms in oceans of tranquillity

Every human possesses this trait

Exercise and preach this loving ability

Everyone has critics

Sharp pain on exposed nerves 

Keep creating, persevering 

Weaving rhymes and verse

Luminescent lightning flashes

From dark clouds that seem so threatening 

Solitude can be so lonely 

Silence can be deafening