(40) Works of Love
Your Shall Love
The Royal Law
The Works of Love is a special place
One that is self-corrective
We cannot show a false-made face
Love makes us introspective
We learn how we can love ourselves
And not as a narcissist
It is by loving someone else
So in that way we’re blessed
If we love our theology
More than we love the divine
It becomes our love’s idolatry
Not by this is love defined
If we in romance love another
More than we love as commanded
Love loses its divine encounter
And in self-love we are remanded
Love so engaged can become a prison
Entrapping our sacred existence
This royal law pardons such decisions
With its simple, strong insistence
It frees us from our past perceptions
Which our thoughts of love distorted
Made us believe in great deceptions
So all acts of love were thwarted
The best of law will liberate
When divinely framed
No need to perseverate
Our true sense of love remains