On loving thy neighbor.

AuthorMoore, John Rees
PositionPoem

Loving thy neighbor is hard to do: that dirty, ignorant, stinking fellow Black or white, Hindu or Jew, requires you to be somewhat mellow. But if you don't do it, who will? It's really a question of love or kill. Rage is a feeling we should rarely use though perhaps there is some excuse: When power resorts to cruel abuse of innocence. But what can hate produce? Love is hard--even to love oneself May require a sick mind to regain health. It's not natural to love your...

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