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

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(129) Works of Love

 

Love is the fulfilling of the law

 

Love and the Eternal Will

 

In the face of the eternal will

We fail in our love's pretentiousness

The law of love must be fulfilled

For us to love in righteousness

Love cannot remain a self-deception

The eternal makes its demand

Love's illusion will bring no satisfaction

Sacred love is a divine command

 

In our world, love's made a perversion

That does not mean the sexual

Consumerism has made the conversion

Of love into something saleable

Love has become a product

For things of purchase, it is imbued

Real love is somehow suspect

Like it's something badly used

 

Our sacred love is not material

This love cannot be possessed

What is real here is ethereal

By that we are impressed

Through all of this, love can never perish

In no way is love degenerative

Eternal in its creation flourish

Love is in always integrative

 

Love is not a thing consumed

To be in its presence brings us peace

We can be free from what we assumed

From love of consuming we're released