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Little Bird
I think I understand hatred now
I think I understand that
it happens when people feel small
Which sounds like an after school special
But it's really true
Hateful people feel small
They feel threatened
Presumably because
when they were small
They were threatened
Curious, isn't it
It's almost like
The connection is so obvious
That it cannot be right
Surely it can't be
That simple.
Well
Perhaps not
I'm only telling you what I think
But I do think it's true, after all
People feel hatred
Because they feel small
There is a lot of wisdom in
There is a lot of wisdom in this poem. In my own experience, the first bullying I experienced, in elementary school, was largely because I got very good grades---and I was told that this discouraged other students (ours was a very small school). The bullying, after pubescence, became the expression of other prejudices; but those earliest experiences were because the bullies felt belittled.
Starward