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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Love as God | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: love-as-god | ||
6 | toc: "Love as god" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Stark Raving | ||
10 | class: stark | ||
11 | order: 13 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: Worse looking over | ||
14 | link: worse-looking-over | ||
15 | - title: L'appel du vide | ||
16 | link: lappel-du-vide | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Initial conditions | ||
19 | link: initial-conditions | ||
20 | - title: Ouroboros of memory | ||
21 | link: ouroboros_memory | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | | [God is love][], they say, but there [is][] | ||
25 | | no god. Therefore, how can there be love? | ||
26 | | And if there is no love, how can there be God? | ||
27 | | There are things in life, I suppose, | ||
28 | | that are simply unanswerable mysteries | ||
29 | | of existence. Maybe this God and love are one. | ||
30 | |||
31 | | Maybe there are many loves, instead of one. | ||
32 | | The difference between [what isn't][] and what is | ||
33 | | could merely be one of scope. The mystery | ||
34 | | is how we speak only of one love--- | ||
35 | | to act as though we know we are supposed | ||
36 | | to love only one other, or that one other and God. | ||
37 | |||
38 | | But supposing that one other is God? | ||
39 | | What then? Is the God-lover to walk alone, | ||
40 | | supported by God only when He feels He is supposed | ||
41 | | to support her? What kind of love is | ||
42 | | this? I would argue in fact this isn't love, | ||
43 | | this [one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand][] mystery. | ||
44 | |||
45 | | How to define two loves as one is the mystery. | ||
46 | | It's obvious to many there is a thing called God, | ||
47 | | and just as obvious that there is one called love. | ||
48 | | Maybe we fool ourselves, we who can't be alone; | ||
49 | | maybe we don't know what either God or love is. | ||
50 | | Maybe, and perhaps; but I for one propose | ||
51 | |||
52 | | that we as only humans are not supposed | ||
53 | | to know or understand capital-L Life, that mystery. | ||
54 | | Isn't it enough to know that God is | ||
55 | | love, and love is God, | ||
56 | | no matter which one | ||
57 | | does or does not exist? What is life, if no love, | ||
58 | |||
59 | | if no God? [Maybe][Maybe1] this saying, "God is love," | ||
60 | | is less a definition of God what what love is supposed | ||
61 | | to be. Of these two terms, [maybe2][] the one | ||
62 | | we should capitalize is Love, that great mystery | ||
63 | | of chemistry and longing. Maybe "Love is god" | ||
64 | | is a more fitting [epigraph][] for what life is | ||
65 | |||
66 | | [made of:][made of] Love, that most delicate, most misty | ||
67 | | of all emotions, is supposed to be their god, | ||
68 | | as the one that binds us, that was, that will be, that is. | ||
69 | |||
70 | [is]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html | ||
71 | [God is love]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A8&version=NIV | ||
72 | [what isn't]: largest-asteroid.html | ||
73 | [one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand]: http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php | ||
74 | [Maybe1]: cereal.html | ||
75 | [maybe2]: death-zone.html | ||
76 | [epigraph]: epigraph.html | ||
77 | [made of]: tapestry.html | ||