IRC-Galleria

Will hate bring it all back?
Will it bring back the innocence?
The sense of security?
Will it bring back the husbands
and wives and sons and daughters?
Will hate make us better than
those who hate us?
Or merely bring us closer to them?
Will hate help us destroy
our enemies?
Or will it laugh as we destroy
ourselves?
There are thouse who say we
don't know who is our enemy is.
But we do.

Our enemy is a neighbourhood
mosque defaced by vandals.
An arab-american storekeeper
in fear of reprisal.
A scared muslim child bullied
because she is different.
Hate is our enemy.
And when we start to hate
other americans,
we have lost
e v e r y t h i n g .

Hate has taken enough
from us already.
Don't let it take
you.