(85-89) Works of Love
II C
You Shall Love Your Neighbor—Distinctions
Power and Position
When we seek power and position
To reach for a kind of celebrity
We create a heavy imposition
On loving our neighbor as reality
This is a kind of inhumanity
That we subtlety perpetrate
Our soul gets lost within our vanity
From that choice let us hesitate
When we cease to love our neighbor
Our neighbor will cease to exist
Yet our love presents no favor
It's self-condemnation will persist
We've become corrupted
When we wrap ourselves in prominence
And others may be thus obstructed
By the presence of such dominance
Distinguished corruption is an enormity
In which Kierkegaard says we're trapped
Distinguished corruption demands conformity
Where you're a traitor when you love enact
We would be scorned and buffeted
If we aspired to love our neighbor
The corrupt would say,"Your corrupted"
A point they'd be glad to belabor
When we walk with our neighbor
It's with God we also stride
True life will regain its savor
To its fulfillment we will strive