Give and Take

So let me find people with hate to spare.

I'll put my hands on them and I'll take away their pain. I'll soak up
their rage and their bitterness through my fingertips and when I touch
you, you'll feel their disgust crawl on your clean skin.

I need more, there isn't enough hate in me to do for you - I want to
slip my fingers into the soul of everyone I meet and replace the hate
that lies in them with some of my kindness and my love. They'll walk
away from the kind lady, who laid her cool hand on their forehead and
they'll smile. Let them take my sweetness; I've no use for it
anymore.

I want to call the wind and the thunder, standing on a mountain with my
arms held up to the sky. I'll shout - Help me God! Search him out and
strike him down. Take his smile and give it to someone less deserving.
Gather storm clouds over him. Let me win. Let me sleep again.

I'll become an angel of hate. I'll grow in rage every day and you'll
never be safe. I'll become a living conduit for the world's hate and it
will pour into you through me, through my fingers and my lips, every
time I touch your cheek or kiss you good morning. You'll never be safe
from me.

So take her hand and gently touch her cheek. Whisper your secrets into
her delicate attentive ear. Tell your love that your wife has never
understood you and you've always been searching in vain for your
soulmate; searching for her.

I will bring disappointment down on you. Where once you had only to
look at a pretty girl to catch her interest, I will eat you away until
you see only boredom in her eyes. I will change you; I will twist you
until your body is just a shell overflowing with the bitterness and
hate I've gifted to you. I will begin with the prettiest ones but one
day perhaps months from now - I'm in no hurry, I can wait - you'll
decide you want a girl that before you would not have wasted even a
glance on and when you have seen the disinterest in her eyes then,
maybe, it will be enough for me.

You'll turn back to me - to your forgotten wife. But you will have
nothing left to tempt me with, you see and I will walk away.

And I will forget you.