WE are all CAPABLE of doing BAD THINGS. Don’t We?

Surely it’s not only bad people who do bad things.

Good people also do bad things.

Only they hide behind a facade and they don’t tell you.

Once in a while, everyone does bad things.

There’s this seemingly vengeful streak in all of us,

that we are all capable of being bad in order to stay alive …

Fighting office politics, war politics, competitive politics, whatever.

So how do we deal with our inner soul and find that redemption factor?

NO ROOM for HATE

by DAVID GOULD 

There is no room within my heart

for revenge, fire or hate

there is no room within my mind

for any thoughts like these.

I cannot find the words to say

just how it is I feel

but I know from deepest hurt

I must forgiveness find.

The hurt that’s been done to us

cuts sore like a knife,

but we must not, repay in kind

what has been done to us.

Instead we must try and find

the way that is so hard,

and reach out our loving hands

to find some friendship now.

There can be no more healing thing

than opening wide our eyes

and seeing that most other folks

are really just like us.