04-10-2025, 04:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2025, 04:06 AM by RiverNotch.)
a little tangential again....or maybe it's an apophatic definition.
For Anselm, Love is not a thing.
God feels what we here likewise feel
when wronged, His wrath's no metaphor
for something indescribable,
He wants---He needs---propitiation,
some arbitrary satisfaction
for both antique and present wrongs,
whose use---just as capricious---hinges
on how one feels, how one is weighed
with guilt, or else how scintillates
one's never-constant sense of faith.
For Calvin, Love does not exist:
there's Hunger, Honor, Sacrifice,
but never Love---Love's not enough.
For Anselm, Love is not a thing.
God feels what we here likewise feel
when wronged, His wrath's no metaphor
for something indescribable,
He wants---He needs---propitiation,
some arbitrary satisfaction
for both antique and present wrongs,
whose use---just as capricious---hinges
on how one feels, how one is weighed
with guilt, or else how scintillates
one's never-constant sense of faith.
For Calvin, Love does not exist:
there's Hunger, Honor, Sacrifice,
but never Love---Love's not enough.