The Salvation of Love And Love as Salvation by Laurence Robert Cohen - HTML preview

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(122—123) Works of Love

 

Love is the fulfilling of the law

 

Unequivocal Love and the Uncertain Law

 

Love is the fulfilling of the law

Not as the human arbitrary

In its truth we can stand in awe

In love we find our sanctuary

For endless generations

We find law but no agreement

Law can't fulfill intentions

Using justice as appeasement

 

The law's demands are a generality

To which we respond, "the others"

In that way, all and none are guilty

So no one really bothers

But love is always felt specifically

Divine purpose is truly personal

Crimes we commit against this morality

Are strictly ours and are thus intentional

 

We hold fast to this unconditionally

That love is a divine commandment

Nothing there can we see provisionally

There's no room for sometime abandonment

These demands are unequivocal

They stand up to our confusion

Love is nothing theoretical

With varieties in profusion

 

To love thy neighbor as thyself

Fulfills as our sacred function

We cannot plead it was someone else

To be granted a small reduction