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