The Cost Of Evil

Love’s message is hidden in the thought;
but hate is often the delivery vehicle.
Love describes the entirety that ought;
but hate is delivered by the people.

What can transform the message of Love;
whispered to all, by the Master;
filtered down from the heavens above;
that hate transforms to disaster?

Envy and pride oft preceed the fall;
innocence is hate’s bystander.
Love, the message of the Master of all;
to evil and hate we meander.

We rush: we run: we fall into Love;
to evil and hate, we sidestep;
avoiding warnings from Him, above;
ignoring most every precept.

Why must we often substitute pride;
for the Love that comes like rain;
what evils prompted that we decide;
supplanting Love, for personal gain?

For, Evil and Hate are twin brothers;
and Love is the sister they hate;
forsaking the effects on all others;
they plan to claim the estate.

Life is that ever present battlefield;
with sorrows, pain, death and strife;
ultimately the great truth; revealed:
death is the cost of hating, in life.