A beautiful piece written by George Wilson
Hate’s An Easy Emotion
 
In the garden of emotions
Hate is a noxious weed
Needing no cultivation
It grows from a mutant seed
There is no need to nurture
An emotion that doesn’t care
One that kills other plants
In a bed it will not share
 
Hate’s an easy emotion
Ignore it and it will spread
Growing out of bitterness
Leaving other emotions dead
It has no good intentions
No philosophical aims
Religion and politics
Are used to play it’s games
 
It will destroy the garden
And the soil that gave it birth
Spreading disease and despair
Leaving toxins in the earth
They who are embraced by hate
Cannot stand proud and tall
There is no honour for one
Who wants another to fall
 
In our garden of emotions
We have to pull the weeds
And provide the nutrients
For our emotional needs
In a garden that grows love
There is no room for hate
It’s seeds will lie dormant
They will not germinate.