Which is stronger love or hate?
I believe love of course
If someone hurt you would feel the same?
We sit on the edge always ready to fall over
Will someone catch you as the descent comes?
Why do you ask?
If a person you loved had you by the throat
While your veins popped out in horrid lines
Forming on your neck
As tears formed in your eyes
Asking for respite
Breath barely escaping your lips
What happens when you love?
At that moment hate becomes evident
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Not a happy thought, Pamela! If someone you love is trying to throttle you, I'd say hate was pretty close by!
ReplyDelete'Yet each man kills the thing he loves
ReplyDeleteBy each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word'
Oscar Wilde
Derrick
ReplyDeleteNot a true to life experience for me but for someone I knew. And no it was not a happy time.
Pamela
Rall
ReplyDeleteI love that! It is so true!
Pamela
It happens more often than we'd like. Excellent conversation that allows room for thought and process!
ReplyDeletePamela, your poem makes it apparently how closely related love and hate are. Strong love can apparently give rise to equally strong hate. Hmmm, I will have to reflect on that!
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Such a strong poem! Wonderfully written!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
-Weasel
Pamela, what a disturbing conversation. I hope the resolution was happier than I feared, on reading your words.
ReplyDeleteViV
Susan thanks and yes it does happen more often than not! This is about an old friend of mine and the horror I went through with her.
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ReplyDeleteMary
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is very closely related!
Thanks.
Pamela
sorry, i gave the wrong link. Here is the real link to my big tent poetry # 9
ReplyDeletehttp://teslawall.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-annie-my-heart.html
Your poem is truly exquisite.I love it.
Best wishes
Mory
Thank you Weasel! i enjoyed yours as well!
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Viv
ReplyDeleteShe finally left him with her two daughters
but it was a hard time for everyone involved.
Pamela
Thanks Mory and I will go check it out!
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"Will someone catch you as the descent comes?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you ask?"
Loved that bit. Take some interesting turns, this one does.
Thanks Twitches!
ReplyDeletePamela
Shows how fast a relationship can fall apart! Very well written, Pamela
ReplyDeleteThanks Diane and that is so true!
ReplyDeletePamela
Really like the descent in the poem from love to hate, in moments. Extremely real, and vivid. The horror is not that it happens so fast, but that it happens far too often.
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Elizabeth
ReplyDeleteOh is that not the truth. Love can change so quickly.
Thanks.
Pamela
It's always good to give voice to this issue. I like your treatment of it, Pamela. Your words speak volumes. Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteHate rises, and some people mistake that intensity for some messed up idea they have about love.
This is powerful stuff! So true, there can be a very thin line between love and hate. (Why most murders are committed by a "significant other".)
ReplyDeleteBrenda
ReplyDeleteThanks and many people do confuse this idea.I think some women think well if he says he is sorry it is ok.
Pamela
Cynthia
ReplyDeleteThanks and the percentage of that is very high.
Pamela
"We sit on the edge always ready to fall" says so much.
ReplyDeleteThanks Deb!
ReplyDeleteI got a bit serious with this one.
Pamela
What an unsettling conversation! Nicely done, Pamela.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul and it is a bit unsettling!
ReplyDeletePamela
There's that old cliche about the thin line between love and hate, and I think that's evident here.
ReplyDeleteFrancis it is an old cliche indeed but I believe it is so true. Thanks
ReplyDeletePamela
Wow! Powerful.
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Tillybud thank you!
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