Hate Poem by Elannia Lake

Hate is dark, dull, and bloodred
Smells like the rotting of things once healthy
It tastes like scorching acid
Eating away your humanity
Sounds like dogs, long gone unfed
Howling and yanking angrily at their cold, cruel chains
It feels like you are enslaved
by those same chains
With no hope but to hurt others
With that same fate
Hate lives all throughout you
covers your eyes
With its veil
The veil that is dark, dull, and bloodred