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

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(23) Works of Love

Part One--I--Love's Hidden Life and Its Recognizability by Its Fruits

 

"For each tree is known by its fruit.  For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble  bush." Luke 6:44

 

 

Technology and science

Are both great temptations

So we fall into compliance

And are trapped in self-deception

They take our senses as totality

The material our sole condition

When our love is the true reality

By the most divine admission

 

When technology is all definitive

We surrender all our trust

To what is proven evidentive

Where kinesthesia is a must

But love is not so tangible

So it ceases to exist

Thus life becomes quite terrible

And our false beliefs persist

 

It is far better to believe in love

And be badly disappointed

Then to fall to a victim of

A belief that is so disjointed

The loss of love is irredeemable

Love is one with the eternal

To surrender that's unthinkable

And really quite infernal

 

Love's life may be hidden

But its fruits we recognize

When the best of life is given

Then love is not disguised