The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2007

A Quote From the Sanskrit – a chant:

Hatred never ceases by hatred,

but by love alone is healed.

This is the ancient and eternal law.

Black As Deepest Night

Hatred is a beetle, black as deepest night.

Scorpion's poison that stings the hater's heart.

Revenge is the brother, leaving trails of acid slime

heaped with devastation, inside the hater's life.

Even if the vengeance is earned or well deserved.

hatred pulls the hater down to the enemy's world.

The haters drown in their own blood.

The hated one goes on unharmed.

Carolyn Donnell