Perhaps – (A Poem about Hate and Love)

Perhaps

Perhaps you have hated me because of the faint odor of my wicked past, still lingering upon me.

Or perhaps it is the memory echoing from your own. Of those that hurt you, and robbed you, and hated you in your innocence and even in your folly.

Then again, perhaps you hate me because you hate Him; the fragrance of Christ. 

I do not know. I only know that His love is in me for you and for your welfare, my friend, even if you may count me your enemy. 

This is His gift to us. His unconquerable love.

Perhaps you might accept this gift, my friend.