The Power of Hate

Aaaarrrrrggh

I HATE them!!

I swore through gritted teeth

Cursing and shaking

Each invective

Making me angrier still

They are the worst

The absolute fucking worst

I ranted and cursed

Each new infraction

Passive aggressive distraction

Making my blood pressure rise

My hatred was uncontrollable

I was inconsolable

I had given my power

My every waking hour

To those

I despised

Until one day I realized

That even when I fantasized

About seeing my nemeses

Under city buses

I was still thinking

About them

Hating them meant I cared

Much more than I dared

I was powerless

My protestations to the contrary

Completely useless

And so I stopped

Rather then spend my time

Or attention

On people I’d rather not mention

I relaxed my brain

Let them slip from the frame

Of all I consider important

I learned that when you hate

You give them importance

Your actions are designed

To pay them back in kind

Yet in the end all you’ve given them

Is your power

So I took my power back

By letting them go

They slipped from my thoughts

With hardly a mention

No longer the center of attention

Cause sometimes it’s not about them

Without hate sucking up my energy

I could go back

To just being me

Peaceful and happy

Cause people who are crappy

No longer have any power over me