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