Only Then

  • Post category:poetry

Stinging words and bitter tears
always shutting off my own ears
Forcing to give leaves nothing to receive
when perceiving hate in others is so naive
Anger grows at those I can’t control
as I wonder how we share a soul
Reactions allow separation to grow
and it may be I will never know
how something so different is what I see
wondering what darkness hides inside of me

So all the while 
I stand in denial
of what I thought was right for me
and in the end was injustice to humanity
When will I purge this lie 
when all I do is to deny
my very own part of me 
that I try so hard to never see
that very piece within me
hides inside everybody

Even that which I hate the most
is just my own shadowed ghost
We turn our hate onto each other
We turn our hate onto our brothers
always claiming them to be
only what I hate inside of me

Only in seeing my own soul
will I ever find the whole
that was left behind
created by my very mind
Redemption comes only when
I learn to turn my sight within
seeing all I hate and all I fear
is that that which lies right in here
and when I shine the light inside myself
only then… only then will God reveal thyself

and all as one will become humanity
And peace will be with us all eternity