RELATIONSHIP Poem: Love & Hate, by LaRena Darrow

Have you ever hated someone you love or love someone you hate?

It’s a hard thing that’s easy to do being with someone like you,

It may seem confusing to most but not to all due to fate,

The constant hail of negative words and lies to suit the things you do,

It’s easy to hate how you are even though I love you so much,

It’s hard to love the person that you’ve become since we started this,

It’s hate that causes me to act the way I do because of such,

It’s easy to love what you & I once shared and that is what i miss,

I couldn’t love the hate you made me learn and how I feel about you,

Does the love fade and hate start to grow it’s starts to devour my soul,

Hate spreading with every harsh word spreading faster then you’d ever know,

Spreads even quicker from the lack of accountability for your role,

The love dwindles quickly was it ever even there to begin with?

If love conquers all then hate must be strong to overpower love,

Honestly I think the whole true love is nothing but a myth,

Love was the cover for your cruel head game so you knew you would win,

Turning love into a dark, evil, and calculated premeditated sin,

There must not have been much love I shared it wasn’t enough to win with you,

Since love is blind poor thing never had a chance, couldn’t see it coming I would have never knew,

Love was already turning dark using it’s only defence,

Hate’s dark shadow appeared years ago I remember the day,

How love lasted as long as it did there was no close call as to how much,

Why did love stick around for so long and did it just simply go away?

Can a person feel love for someone and hate them so much?

Since hate made itself at home and love is no longer what we seek,

Still not sure how it snuck its way in could we keep alive or is it too weak?

Something I will never put myself through to hurt like this ever again,

Hate has taken loves place between you and I as of here and now,

The hate can’t be erased and it has now ruined our future together,

Ruined any chance our love had in making it to our forever,

Love was there that whole time and somehow survived the abuse,

20 years is no walk in the park with a narcissist like you have slowly become,

After holding on so long my grip is slipping but I’m still holding on to the nuice,

So the end of our love had come so for you and I there is no use…