"If God Is Love"

From A Poetic Search for God Within by Warren Molten 

Marcene Borthwick passed along this beautiful poem:

 

If God is love,

there is no place where love it not;

and although this seems like a double negative, 

sounds like a plot, a Gordian knot;

  and easier said than believed,

  it rings true, feels good, 

even theological as in "word of God" --

  all of that, and that's a lot.

Still, there is no place where love is not.

Yet, we live like fish

swimming about in search of water,

or a blind mole pressing on to find soil,

or the olive its oil--absurd, like a bird

flying around without a care, looking for air.

No, Love is everywhere. Yet, such a paradox!

For still, we must look for love: around the bend,

over the rainbow, across this room or that street,

on the other side of an argument.

Near or far, we must search for love,

knowing that it is hard to find,

but hardest of all when love is finally found.

For then we must cherish is,

we must nurture it and help it grow,

then let it go.

So, if we are born, bathed and buried

in love, you and I have no excuse

not to be God's lovers in the world,

all of us all of the time, starting here and now

by loving ourselves,

and taking loving steps towards others,

and holy others, and on to every living creature,

all the way to God.

For it is with the eye of love

that we find God,

and the eye of love that God finds us.

What a lovely way to live,

and of course, the only way to die.