Makes Life Worthwhile (Cor) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

And now I know what HATE is - absolute
unadulterated hate, driving in peak traffic
with a headache trying to reverse into a
small space after many years not doing it

Discovering I can’t find reverse gear at all,
when driving off the road is blocked, make
a U-turn on the spot, with taxis everywhere
I break every traffic rule without remorse

Winning their respect by doing as they do
till ending up behind the ultimate fool who
stops dead when we should have crossed
the robot; bitter hate welling up making me

Send red-hot rays against myself; not him
because every feeling I ever have fills my
own self; resting afterwards love returned
enveloping me - yes, ‘tis love alone that

Makes the world go round, hatred being
just a means to lose everything
that makes life worthwhile...