Hate: Love Gone Wrong Poem by Meraj Ahmed

When hate first visited me, I was waiting for love,
I was writing digital greeting cards, I was daydreaming,
I was exploring new emojis, I was counting my abnormal heartbeats
so that when love arrives in a message,
I could reply properly,
Because every time love sent a message,
She also sent a complaint that I do not know how to reply,
So I had written all the digital greeting cards and explored all the emojis.
But love didn't send a message, hate did,
I was surprised, I couldn't understand how she changed from love, to hate
And I was not ready, I hadn't prepared for it,
I didn't know how to reply,
So I replied with whatever I had prepared,
I sent those emojis, those digital greeting cards,
And then hate didn't know how to reply
she was not prepared for love,
And thus we kept replying according to our preparations,
And then my preparations changed, I adapted.
Now we both became hate.
Now I had become what I most hated,
My heart became heavy, my soul started degrading,
I was replying hate with hate, still I was unsure if that was the right reply,
Because every time I replied with hate,
I felt like I am both the sender and the receiver.
I wondered if her heart is heavy too,
if she too feels her soul being degraded
if she too receives back, her sent messages,
and I wondered,
If it is necessary to prepare for hate, with hate,
And love with love.
Now when hate visits me,
I make her comfortable,
I serve her a champagne of love,
And some fruits to remove the burden of hatred from her hatred,
And from my heart,
I serve her and myself, delicious dishes of forgiveness.
She doesn't take any of it,
she still is not prepared for the dishes and the champagne,
but all of a sudden, my heart become lighter,
and my soul enlightened.