I Dont Hate You! By: Taylor Donnelly Poem by Taylor P. Donnelly

I DON'T HATE YOU!

By: Taylor Donnelly

There is this... anger

What is this anger

Sadness wrapped in ANGER

I am angry

Why am i angry? !

You, you think i don't love you

You think I'm angry with you,

That i hate you because maybe my ancestors too far back, Ive never meet them disillusioned by the time and the nurtured scared by Society, bigotry suckling ancestors

I don't understand

I don't hate you i don't know you well enough to hate you

But you think you know me because old white bigots in caskets did bad thing to your ancestors

I don't aline my self with them, so why do you

I never raised a hand to you

I never laughed in your face and called you words I'm not aloud and don't want to say now because...

I don't hate you but you hate me

We have never meet... but you hate me

Because the color of my skin

The very thing you blame me for doing

Though i have never seen you as a color

I don't want to own you

I want to stand be side you and make it better for our kids that will one day blame us too

I don't hate you

But You there with the head scarf!

You i don't hate you because you didn't get in those planes

You didn't put on that bomb praying to a god I don't see

But don't be angry because i don't see Allah

I don't see any god... or goddess, no path, or way of life

So yes your bomb strapping country men that think this maybe it to be a truth

I am a godless pig a white skinned devil with none to pray to

Not having a god to tell me though corrupted lips of men who think they read a book differently than I

Or can read it to me because words are lines

I'm illiterate to the prophets and the profits

I see no god in the actions of children who think they are men who think they are grow women

I don't hate you!

Or your people

I was young and didn't understand why my teachers cried begging the sky

I didn't know why the world felt colder and with war not too distant I FELT COLDER without knowing why

I didn't get why flags hung heavy made my Chinese children in doors of future bigots whp think they know you

I never hated you

I most likely never will

And for this i ask you don't hate me either for my people, your people, our people

We are not the people that we have never meet

Bigotry is not a genetic trait

We are not the skin and flesh on our bones

I'm not my religion and religious people...

Or lack of

I AM MY BELIEFS

I AM MY LOVE

I AM MY LIFE, ACTIONS AND WORDS

i. don't. hate. you!