“Hate Poem,” written by Julie Sheehan in 2006, describes the perspective of a women who is trying to differentiate her feelings towards her significant other. The first half of the poem is filled with her vexation and detestation and the other half postulates that it is the little things her lover does that cannot keep her away. Even though the title is a set up for a hate poem, it exposes the comparison between love and hate, describes how she cannot live without this other person, and how peeling back her emotions one layer at a time can help impact her true emotions for this person. Love and hate are deciphered as the same idea in this poem. The beginning line “I hate you truly. Truly I do” exemplifies a more open-minded tenor, not the hatred tone she thinks she is setting. The list of instances she exposes, shows that she thinks about this person on a daily basis and she is always mindful of them. “My sigh in the background as you explain relational databases hates you,” elucidates that she loves this person so much that she is willing to sit and listen to them speak about tiresome facts. On her list, each line of her undefined “hate” is accompanied by a romantic instant. “My pleasant “good morning”: hate.” indicates that she has spent the night next to them. When a woman is in a relationship, she wants to touch her lover in any way possible. “You know when I’m sleepy I nuzzle my head under your arm? Hate.” suggests that she wants to be next to them. “My lungs, duplicitous twins, expand with the utter validity of my hate, which can never have enough of you.” Without air, humans could not live and without her lover, she could not live. She feels trapped in the idea of love and does not know how to react. Her lover is all she is breathing in, mesmerizing not only her emotions but taking over her heart. She is trying so hard to persuade herself that she is feeling hatred towards this person, but kn