love and other monsters

HATE

Little girls say boys hate them

Because they belittle and tease them

Pulling pranks and saying mean things you wouldn't like

I don't understand why they tell those little girls

Boys do that because they like you

Instead of teaching them how to love

Hate is the honey of brutality

And hurt is the bitter taste in the back of your mouth

You chose to remove or savor it in your mouth

Hate does not make love

Hate is not a simple emotion

That changes so easily

Hate is a soul-crushing resentment

Dislike, and unforgivable feeling for something

But you throw it around

Like it's just uncertain feelings

You don't hate or love

Like or dislike

You're just confused about your emotions

I don't understand

When they say hate is the new love

When they say there's a thin line

Between hate and love

They are two different emotions

Don't tell me because I haven't hated someone

And fell in love with them

That it changes everything

Because you don't know hate

If you think it can turn around

Into the opposite emotion

Hate does not make love

Hate destroys

And love conquers

All emotions

Hate is not a love I want to have.