(84-89)Works of Love
II C
You Shall Love Your Neighbor—Distinctions
Great distinctions can possess us
Alone in love are we truly free
Our true selves we learn to trust
And not to distinction's identity
Our vision opens us to all and thus
We can glory in our equality
Love removes us from the superfluous
Brings our sacred equanimity
With love we rise above distinctions
Freed from the chains of hierarchy
Where in love we can seek the extinction
Of our despair and our inner anarchy
For distinctions trap us in the circle
Of those in our same level
However grand, our distinctions cripple
And our soul bedevils
We are distinct in our own being
Our positions are impermanent
Love can take us near God's seeing
Thus our souls form our own firmament
Each of us is a vast complexity
An eternal beauty immaterial
All formed from God's intensity
And bound for the eternal
Our distinctions are a shibboleth
They cannot make our true connection
It's love that leads us to express
And enact the divine intention