The Doors of Yearning

Love and hate can inflame
the desires of the insane
They can open the doors of yearning,
after knocking on them for years
They make the face of a desert
exude its first and final tears.

But where is the boundary
between love and hate?
Does it lie on the lock
of the blood-stained gate?
Or do they coexist inside
the entrails of compassion,fighting a fruitless civil war.