Thursday, December 18, 2025

poem

The Opposite of Love

One day you will be asked

To define the opposite of love 

And your answer to that question

Will determine whatever happens next 

If you say hate it means 

You have to hold on

To some of your hatred

To remember what love is

Which is why even jesus

Isn’t allowed to forgive the devil.

If you say nothingness 

It means that love is the impetus

For everything that exists

Which makes a goddess of love 

Who spreads her wings

And demands the universe manifest.

When everything comes from love

All that’s left to claim is an emptiness 

Estranged from even the deepest despair.

Whichever one you choose

Don’t ever forget it because 

Every time love is missed or lost

Or outright rejected

The other side of the ledger

Must be balanced—

Either hate increases

Or the universe shrinks 

To the size of the very first thing.


12/18/25 

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