Hatred—like a shade over my eyes
provokes sleep like false darkness.
It lulls lighter feelings—those
unnecessary ones like love and peace—
away like a dream forgotten
once awake. It startles the body with
fantasies of justice and righteous anger—
flimsy things that substance doesn’t back.
Unformed and uncontainable, hatred
often disappears as quick as a nightmare,
but sometimes it lingers like a wish
remembered in the first star of twilight.