(73—80)Works of Love
II C
You Shall Love Your Neighbor
In friendship and our love erotic
We still need to love our neighbor
That does not make our love quixotic
But makes such love the stronger
It’s not the songs of romantic poets
Whose love sounds narcissistic
Still we love our beloved and we show it
To love our neighbor is not simplistic
Love returns us to our kinship
With the essence of the divine
In that love is a form of worship
Which we can follow all the time
Our friends and our beloved
Can help us to this task
To love our neighbor help's recommended
For that help we need to ask
Even if we suffer separation
That old theme of poetic dirges
Love is still our consolation
An answer to eternal urges
For the quality that outlasts time
Love can grow in its perfection
When it’s the love that is sublime
And not dependent on affection
Love they say is blind
In such blindness we can see all
We can choose to love everyone in kind
Into divine love we do not fall