your enemy’s afraid of something, probably you
he fears and trembles at what you may do
he believes himself, he must protect and defend
perceiving you’re the enemy, not his friend
an angry response will only fuel the burning fire
of revengeful, reactive, persistent ego desire;
crazy notions, embedded deep inside his head
restrain the insane by means of love instead
we all fear our little ego could be crushed
insanely, we defend it till our very death
unless we find a sense of reason, some sanity
we will never be able to save our humanity
hate is not the way to handle the insane
hate prolongs the silly fighting game
love your enemy; it’s often been said
for without love, well, peace is dead
Author notes
Look at it this way. If you encounter a crazy man who is running at you with a knife, what do you do? First, you try to just stay out of his way. Second, if he is coming directly at you, you try to block him without hurting him. As a last resort, perhaps, you kill him in self defense.
Regardless of what you do, you do it without anger and hate. You do it with love. Anger and hate create an energy field that has to yet be resolved.
It makes no sense to hate a crazy man.
This applies to nation to nation relationships, as well as individual.
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SO , SO TRUE!!!!!
If one hates only more hate will come, if one loves more love will come back. Which would we want to have come our way!
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Yes!!!!! Wonderful!
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Thanks for reading.
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I love this write it is absolutely true, I'm so glad my path of friends has led me back to you...I have been lost in the wilderness for a long while; I belive that it is time to come home, I found a comment you left on one of my poems; 'A simple philosophy' the comment relates to ego
Thank you for sharing your thoughts
John
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kindness is always the way to a heart and to help heal the mind pained. a friend not foe for all living souls is the best game to play.. touching and so true in heart.. for anger only brings on more... Hugs always Angel♥
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excellent
What a beautiful write. And so very creative and inspirational. thank you for sharing
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wonderful words you have penned, it made me stop and think about loving my enemy... best of luck in the contest
Sean
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It's a very profound notion you have here. Is it possible that anger and hate are just bouts of temporary insanity, which would fall away under the cool light of reason?
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powerful write and I love the last stanza. So often I have wondered how it is possible for people to love others who are insane, but after coming across a few insane people myself, I have come to realize that there are some people who honestly just don't know that they are acting a certain way or why it is that they act a certain way. I have even encountered narcissists in my life and as much as they may hurt me, I can't find it within me to hate them in any way. It makes no sense to hate someone who doesn't understand why they act the way they do. Thanks for sharing and best of luck in the contest.
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Thanks for reading and commenting. If you look at everybody as slightly insane, then it's easer to love them. We can love everybody! Look at it this way, anyone who intends harm on another really hurts himself, thus he is insane. Anyone who values material things over spiritual growth is insane. We're all insane! - Bonita
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when we look deeply into ourselves, we can see the insanity
to defend ourselves, not just physically
we have ego that we have reached for throughout history
even a word an insult that we react to as if reacting is going to change anything
I really like this
if we could start living this in our own life's in the smaller picture then perhaps it could change our nature of reacting.
everything begins with one
and in every fight there are two or more
I wonder how much stronger is the one who walks away
very well thought out, an impressive write
love the AN as well
Thank you for your entry
God bless you my friend...
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Thank you for your comment and thoughts. Yes, it starts with the individual. Where else could it start? I added to my notes that this applies to nation to nation relationships as well as individual relationships. A nations' energy is the sum of all the energy in it. It can be excited or calmed down by it's leaders. God bless, my friend.
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