WOW, Bernie, I'm not sure where to begin with this review. Since the date on this poem shows October (same month) 2002, I'm praying you have recovered quite a bit in 23 years. I kept reading this poem, hoping for the same kind of twist at the end, like Julia Stiles' class presentation in 10 Things I Hate About You. It never came, but you wrote "My hate for you" eight times. That was almost as many times.

You wrote the poem as one long stanza, which has the presentation of a rant without a breath.

The "My hate for you"s come in pairs, which are each four lines apart. This makes the whole poem feel like four stanzas mashed together. "The darker it gets/the stronger it becomes" stands as the opening salvo or wind-up for each of the stanzas with the final one being the shortest.

The more I analyze this rant poem the more I see.

The six lines of
"The darker it gets
the stronger it becomes
My hate for you
I've tried so hard to shove
it away deep inside
My hate for you" gives the presentation of bookends and/or cement pylons in the choppy waters of a storm-filled lake.

It reminded me of the oft-repeated phrase from Linda Ronstadt's 1974 song, "You're No Good." Though she didn't write, she made it a #1 hit because I can still hear her voice in my head.

Bottom Line: You're point is seared into the reader's mind. Well-written. WRITE ON!