LITERARY: "We Who Hate We" by Darein Catchillar

Published by: Lloyd Agbulos 

Date published: March 10, 2022

Time published: 12:35 PM

Category: Poetry 

Theme: Illusion of Power 

Synopsis: When you face the reality of our society, you will always come to despise it. And if this is the society, what are we in a we?

If they live the life with the color of a malison,

And they become courageous to say that they live their rights;

The stupidest thing will almost think—

With the intention of instigating fights rather than flying kites,

Then there's nothing as one for us to become one.

Because ours ask the why's and go—

And rise too wise and though we grow.

We're once silent becoming everything loud,

With a how which around our go who,

Then we're everything so.

This terrain is mapped with madness too.

And people speak anger than poetry tell how;

So we are the prey and so your breath is the hunt.

With your hands around your feet, they know—

Freedom is deception till now.

Now we hate we and seek what we may see,

And words are more powerful than fists can be.

And the silence in the loud is nothing but dull—

With a sigh for tomorrow, then around we call.

There are us always hating we. 

We're everything confused than the liars,

We're everything greater than stories can fire,

We're everything more than the concepts,

But with the plot and the settings, this is our lives;

We're no one but the mad, as such satire.

Painting: Dangerous Work at Low Tide (1940) by Eric Ravilious