Hate: a word that comes all too often to the lips.

Used when words fail us.

Not the opposite of love at all, but one and the same.

Hate comes from not understanding;

The emotion that swells the heart.

Of loving someone to the point of pain.

A frustration you push away.

That won’t leave you alone

And you never forget.

But the day will come when you realize,

Hate is watching the one you love, that gave birth to the emotion.

Turn away and mistake your love.

They brace themselves for the worse and so do you.

So when it comes time to explain these smoldering feelings;

You’re at a lost for words, so you utter the words that first come to mind:

I HATE YOU!