June 11, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is faith, in honor of Ramadan, which begins on
June 7.
Today’s poem is about how the awareness of God’s love leaves
one no alternative to the vicissitudes of faith.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
How might one untie the knot
That binds one to God's love?
For love imposes innocence,
And innocence, remorse.
The tenderness that time forgot
No caustic can remove:
The laws of cause and consequence
Are cut off at the source.
Love comes simply as one is,
Condemning one to hope,
Restoring culpability,
Awakening one's pain.
So loved, one cannot be but His,
Though one be moved to grope
Towards some amoral liberty
That seeks the void in vain.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/howmi6.html.
For more poems about religion, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Faith.
June 6: Rapture Comes Most Easily Within
June 11: How Might One Untie the Knot
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