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Issue 1 Poetry

Hate

“I wrote this real late and really poured out my feelings into it. I didn’t have much to edit since I thought it really captured my feelings at that point and didn’t need much editing. I wanted to capture my ideas about hate and how it is the easiest emotion to be captured by, and how insanely hard it is to really love yourself and others to a full extent.”

Hate

Gushing warm tides
swallowing whole its target.
A daze of control sets inside
its participant.

Flowing through control’s cracks, 
its porous facade of truth,
Unable to control its own 
self hurt
Slashes at its surroundings,
to produce a controlled space for 
an uncontrolled self.

It feels good to throw passionate rage 
at others, because for once in a long
while, this rage impacts something
else besides yourself.

Oh what blissful release I will feel
at death
to learn how to control this uneven,
flowering hatred to myself, and 
realize I really do love myself.
This hurts.

Graeme Evenson is a fourth year history major starting an MA in International Studies. I can relate or explain nearly anything through analogies about music.