(153-154) Works of Love IV
Our Duty to Love Those We See
If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he's a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (I John 4: 20)
Community and Love
To our very core we are an entity
That lives our best in community
In truth it bestows our sanity
We enter life and yearn for unity
We find it first at our mother's breast
By much emotion we are enveloped
It's love we feel as existence's best
Through that sense we will develop
For ages we keep seeking deeply
Into the nature of the human being
That lives in all and so completely
It provides our sacred meaning
This is not love as an abstraction
We feel it as quite tangible
Loneliness brings us to distraction
And our hold on life turns fragile
But when the world is too much with us
And we weary of corrupt and confusing noise
Still our longing we must essential trust
We must love even when annoyed
Community is our deep seated need
All of self is grown from that
In the end, we must always plead
To make community our personal act
Love is our first community
So about love we feel insecure
We can seek reassurance near continually
Only the love that we give is for sure