Hatred - A Sour Mango That Can Sweeten

If hatred were to grow on plants,

Would it have spikes or thorns

Or would it be like dead skin toes

That we usually simply know as corns?

Does hatred have a certain chemistry

Like sulphuric acid or some such thing;

Does it flow like lava down hill

When a mountain top bursts its ring?

Hatred is often found in hearts

But where was hatred born;

Does it prick the one who touches it

Like the cactus and its thorn?

Perhaps, a cactus grows its thorns

For it doesn’t wish to become a meal,

And so it merely spreads hurt around

For it knows it can never heal.

A mango when young is very sour

But sweetens hugely when it’s ripe;

Can’t hatred in human hearts be thus

Willing and able to change its stripe?

Perhaps, hatred is like a mango more,

Like a cactus, a lot less,

And as it matures in the summer’s heat

It’ll also turn sweet, I guess.

- rajguru