Love Turned To Hate

-Love Turned To Hate-
by Keaton Foster


It’s late
Just a few words
Nothing less
Everything more
Love turned to hate
I won’t waste
Any rhyme nor reason
There is a time
Just as there is a season
Neither
This is
Always I’m between
Always I’m someplace
That I truly don’t belong
Doing things deemed wrong
Pissing off complete strangers
Earning their unbridled anger
Clearly I can hear their voices
Across every ounce of darkness
As many and as one they are chanting
Melodramatic forms of the end
Wishing them upon me
For all that done via each line
With my limited time
For each of them there is a God
One of silver linings
One of cosmic collidings
A god that will honor
All that has ever been said
All that has ever been confessed
A deity that will never abandon them
For me that is a mind job
A twisting of all that I know
And all that I alone am certain of
For me there are other gods
Ones of equal understanding
Ones of variant circumstances
Ones right here upon these pages
I live each day for them
I fight in every way for them
What else could I do
Absolutely nothing I’m sure
Love turned to hate
Is just what I say
I’m sure others must repeat
They are angrier than I
I could never hold a flame
To what they feel
In the depths of their hearts
Good, bad, or indifferent
Matters less and less
All that does matter
Is what I say
What I often express
And how
It violates what they alone
Have come to see as just
Because of that
They
Not me
Nor any god of any choice
Stand in the truest of judgment
They condemn me with their replies
They assure me of my own hell
A place where I’ll rot away
A point where I’ll turn
Upon a spigot of crimson flame
Where I’ll plead for forgiveness
From a god that I
So dared myself to ignore
These words will be evidence
Prima facie
Used to convict me
Because of my convictions
They will never look any deeper
Then the surface
Of all that I’ve ever penned
They’ll see what they wish
What needs to be
Whatever it will take
For them to crucify me
For believing in something that they
Wholeheartedly disagree
Love turned to hate
Is something that I wish to convey
To them and those unlike me
I do what I was meant to do
There can be nothing else
Regardless of the ultimate price…


Love Turned To Hate
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.