Hate Continues
by Jeanne G’Fellers-Walker
With knife
With blade
With screaming rage
We’ve come onto this course.
You win
We lose
Then turn centrifuge
The process reconvenes
Take yours
For mine
In dangerous times
It will be mine again
Your father
My mother
Take strangers, our brothers
Cause they were taught to hate
From Earth
Then out
Without nary a doubt
The process will repeat
Star spread
New ground
Won’t be ours if we’re bound
By that which is in the past
Star Trek’s humanity one is a lie
© 2002 Jeanne G’Fellers-Walker
Jeanne G’Fellers-Walker's Science Fiction poetry and stories have appeared in Neverworlds, Aphelion, The Murderhole, and ShadowKeep
ezines. She is currently nearing completion of an undergraduate degree
in English and plans on attending graduate school to concentrate on a
career in creative writing. Her children have her outnumbered three to
one, her spouse is an authentic West Texas cowboy who tries hard to
understand his “out there” mate, and in addition to writing
she is an artistic dabbler who enjoys illustration.
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