those who have measured the true depths of hate are never guided by the maps we know nor by the compass or the starry show at height of darkness that is not their fate on the long journey for they won’t debate the terrors or the pains there is no blow so hard it will detain them the great flow of history inspires them not to wait there’s a reminder that we learn the ways when we are children and the early signs of wisdom we dismiss as so much guff yet we return when we’ve fulfilled the days of hardest learning and worked in the mines discovering at last we’re not so tough