(172-173) Works of Love
Our Duty to Be in The Debt of Love
Love Is Not Bookkeeping
We can never calculate
The scope of our love's debt
Nor should we compare our rate
Of how our payment is expressed
Accounting is for things finite
And love has no tawdry limits
It grows with payments of delight
For all the debt of love permits
No over-payment is ever possible
To underpay cannot exist
Love's payments are always responsible
It's our fullness and makes love persist
Love is not a set transaction
Some worn out business formality
We know love is divine attraction
And will always owe for that totality
When we love in every moment
Every second pays the debt
Every payment does love foment
We give love freely and not to get
In that sense, love is categorical
It is quite simply right
The benefits are peripheral
When seen in the divine light
The light of love must shine beyond
The limits of one lover
All our neighbors can thus respond
To the love of God uncovered