HATE

I will not associate it
with the color black.
It is transparent and real,
a void of confusion
left to fester in the
deep recesses of the mind.

Civilizations have been built
with its relentlessness
and indifference, executioner
of humanity, stealer of the
last breath and blood,

yet smiles adorn the
very faces that would deny
its existence, and slowly
blind those before infection,
where the heart continues to
beat, but now, without purpose.