Poems

1. Hate Who Hate

I hate those who hate,

I hate myself for not knowing what to hate,

I hate life,

I hate love,

I hate not knowing of my upcoming strife

I hate not know of my oncoming love,

I hate those who hate,

I hate myself

I'd stop to hate for gold of my weight,

I hate all those with wealth,

I hate those who harm,

I hate those who hurt,

I hate those who use their charm,

To put others in the dirt,

I hate living as I ache,

I hate living in earth wake,

I hate people who hate,

I being the one who must be to forsake

Those who hate, must hate me

Because of thou hate I hate thee,

The point i must make,

Leaving myself without this weight

Is that I love to hate,

And all love hate when you hate what they hate.

Chris Hamilton

The hate that I hate I hate the hate that resides in me now I hate the hate that is so heavy it weighs me down I hate the hate that keeps my emotions tightly wound I hate the hate that charges my wall I hate the hate that lies to strengthen my fall I hate the hate that has me in chains I hate the hate that courses through my veins I hate the hate that is a shadow at my side I hate the hate that has stolen my mind I hate the hate that blinds me from the stars I hate the hate that has created my war I hate the hate that has stolen my grace My scarlet letter written all over my face Adalie Hettie The Angry Soup Of Racism ain't it a shame when hate lynches a 14 year old Colored boy in 1955 Mississippi and blows away the dreams of four innocent little Negro girls in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama yeah bus that to your segregated thoughts as I 'interracially' walk you through Little Rock, Arkansas with Daisy Bates & nine Black Children to march along side the National Guard on their way to a lily white school as the message of this un-segregates & un-tangles the history of hate attackin’ Negroes in 1957 whose only desire was to be educated and schooled too racism & hate doesn’t try to guide the white citizen council back to their good senses ‘cause racism don’t care ‘bout nobody being Jew or Colored when it needs to fire-bomb Negro churches with Negroes in them or feels the need to hang someone from a tree out of existence racism even devours… its own kkklan as the innocent pay the ultimate price racism doesn’t care if your church is the 16th Street Baptist and 14 yr. old Addie Mae Collins is one of the four black Alabama children killed in attendance racism ain’t concerned about you being Caucasian either or your last name being Jewish White Black Brown Till Schwerner Evers Liuzzo Mandela Martin or Rodney King and so many other names that we’ll never know of that racism wounded or buried six feet under hate racism doesn’t care about what kinda NAACP dream you’re having or concerned about your last name being 'Parks' in 1955 when it attempts to guide you back to the 'Colored' section of the bus where you know your civil-rights will be denied every time you allow ' segregation & discrimination' to collect its fare racism and its hateful followers have no regard at all for one’s race/religion or sexual persuasion especially when racism peers into its discriminating mirror century after century time after time day after day and tells itself in 2006 'it’s better than you' because you’re 'cultured' different from them' yeah racism stirs an 'ugly pot' of soup that no one should ever have to taste. A poem, from the poetic collection of ' Treasure Poem Palace, ' to be published in 2008. Ronald Stroman

Racism All Around Of human ignorance I am almost in despair For racism found everywhere But like they say sheer ignorance is bliss Just like Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss. People carry their honour in a flag And of their Nationality they brag They feel superior and they differentiate And against those who are different they discriminate. So many people still judge by their race For such there never ought to be a place 'A fair go' those untruthful words do i recall There is no such a thing as a 'fair go for all'. Though we live in a so called democracy Of racism we never will be free They judge you by where you come from and the colour of your skin For many equality and respect seems impossible to win. It's been awhile since the days of Martin Luther King His name to it has a familiar ring If against racism he did not choose to strive Today the great man he would be alive. So many holding the reins of power not spiritually aware And racism is around me everywhere And racism only leads to division and war Just goes to show how ignorant we truly are. LaVenThere purple