(218-219) Works Of Love
Part Two II
Love Believes All Things
Our Fear Of Error
When we are constantly mistrustful
We might feel best pleased
But it's a choice that is most fateful
By ourselves we are deceived
Perhaps we fear to be in error
So in mistrust we need hide
In that way, we are wrong forever
Mistrust is where our fear resides
We can fear to be deceived
Because we feel it's stupid
But what might we have achieved
When we reject the good and lucid?
For love the loss of good is insupportable
So love believes all things
To achieve what's false for love's impossible
Love's beliefs are brave and daring
Do we dare then to believe
In love itself as true?
It's us who make our joy and grief
In mistrust isolation will ensue
Mistrust is an essential rejection
Of all else out of hand
Love is our best protection
Where deceit's not in command
When in love we choose to act
In the depth of our intention
We cannot be deceived in fact
When love's purpose is not in question