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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 | ||