god is love they say but there is no god therefore how can there be love and if there is no love how can there be god there are things in life i suppose that are simply unanswerable mysteries of existence maybe this god and love are one maybe there are many loves instead of one the difference between what is not and what is could merely be one of scope the mystery is how we speak only of one love to act as though we know we are supposed to love only one other or that one other and god but supposing that one other is god what then is the god-lover to walk alone supported by god only when he feels he is supposed to support her what kind of love is this i would argue in fact this is not love this one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand mystery how to define two loves as one is the mystery it is obvious to many there is a thing called god and just as obvious that there is one called love maybe we fool ourselves we who ca not be alone maybe we do not know what either god or love is maybe and perhaps but i for one propose that we as only humans are not supposed to know or understand capital-l life that mystery is not it enough to know that god is love and love is god no matter which one does or does not exist what is life if no love if no god maybe this saying god is love is less a definition of god what what love is supposed to be of these two terms maybe2 the one we should capitalize is love that great mystery of chemistry and longing maybe love is god is a more fitting epigraph for what life is made of love that most delicate most misty of all emotions is supposed to be their god as the one that binds us that was that will be that is