(254-255) Works of Love IV
Love Seeks Not Its Own
Small-mindedness
Love is not small-mindedness
Not out of divine creation
Love does not make for blindness
That is our own invention
Not in pride or humility
We choose the safety of such narrowness
As essential to our identity
To hide from love's venturesomeness
When small-mindedness is what we choose
We define our insignificance
Perhaps we fear and want to lose
The divine sense of our love's magnificence
To escape from our own individuality
Thus deny that quality in all others
Assumes a shape of loveless commonality
So nothing great will bother
Individuality is a kind of greatness
Love offers clear recognition and praise
Small-mindedness in some pettiness
All else must be erased
For our individuality is a refutation
That small-mindedness is the truth
Love thereby is such a perturbation
The small-minded must abuse
Love will give up everything
For the beloved's individuality
To gain its own doesn't mean a thing
In the face of love's totality