Hate

Two roads diverged in a dark wood

Beyond the green pastures and still waters I once laid by

A leaf falls where I once discovered loneliness.

Shadows became my company

And a voice played in my head,

It was yours;

Go and hunt you said,

And I took the road traveled by less

Into the valley of the shadow of death,

Hunting for vengeance.

I raised my sword and swung

If nothing else to see myself swing,

And I fought for fighting, I felled many foes

But all of them were naught but shadows.

Go and hunt you said!

So I holed the ground

And burned every bridge for when I found--

This promised treasure

It it would be mine

My own

My precious.

Divine.

The shadows spread and I couldn’t hide.

And then I finally cast aside

This futile quest for vengeance

And that alone has made all the difference.