Love Versus Hate

Love begets love;

Hate begets hate:

And happiness and sorrow

Are no products of fate.

For if I love, I spread joy;

If I hate, I spread pain:

And I may be here just once

And never again.

Love can kill hate;

But hate too can kill love:

And to do or undo,

It is here and now.

So if I love to love,

Then I shall hate to hate;

And today I decide,

For tomorrow’s too late.

Eric Anthony Trott

21^st November 1993