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It’s so easy to hate not being loved,
but difficult to love being hated.
What a strange relationship it is
when love and hate are paralleled.
Love, unlike hate, is eternal
and can never be transformed;
for love is and only be its self.
Hate, on the other hand, can boast
many manifestations of its self;
demanding and expressing evil
in various deceptive ways—lovingly
seeking to destroy all that is good.
Manifested, the goodness of love
is of God, and is impervious to the will
and destructiveness of hate; for love
surpasses all things not of its making.
In due season, the injustice of hate
will fade in to the love of justice
and the hate of inequality shall melt
and flow into the love of equity.
Such is the redeeming power
of love that makes hate powerless:
where love is, hate cannot abode.
It will always be impossible for you
to love God, whom you have not seen
and hate any one of his precious beings:
Don’t you just hate it that humankind
has yet to master living onederful in love?
