By Jon
Date: 2005 Jul 11
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"Whenever I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard!', I'm always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
--Sydney J. Harris

Grandpa used to say,
"Problem with an eye for an eye is that everyone ends up blind."
Sometimes I think I hate you.
Taking revenge would be the easy way out.
Make you hate me,
ruin the memories by tainting them,
and send you into a world of doubt.
It would be so easy to hurt you,
the same way you hurt me.
But then we'd just play this game
back and forth until we've both had enough,
and when it ends the only thing we'll remember
is how much we ended up hating each other.

So, shut up for a second, and I'll do the same.
Maybe in silence, we'll remember
why we stopped talking in the first place.