Someone To Hate

I have never seen hatred in a bird's eye Just pure wisdom protruding from their eye sockets They don't have time allocated for hate Now, human beings with their massive brains Have plenty of time to spare Allocating a big chunk of their gray and white matter to hatred There is no gain from hatred, just a bucket full of poisonous vile To fill the ocean of your being But why do we humans need someone to hate? It boils down to fear and uncertainty We have calibrated our body, mind and souls to detect potential sources of fear and uncertainty And most of the time the finger points to our neighbors, family members and friends Sometimes it is the color of skin, religious beliefs or tribal lines Without question, we then embark on a journey of hate Isolating our quarry, we build the lowest threshold of tolerance towards them We find excuses to hunt them down In order to pierce them with our words or actions To shred their sense of being Hating someone is the closest thing to cannibalism Let's find a way to eradicate hatred in our lives It's a form of self-mutilation ©Kenneth Maswabi