Reason for love

Reason for love  

There’s no reason for love.  

Get used to it.  Go ahead –

work up a few doddering explanations

for your unruly behavior.

Something to make you linger longer

outside the charnel house.

The trick is that love is never sure

and is thus impossible for the wary.

But what if this time, you ally

with someOne besides your timid self?

SomeOne Who might, perhaps, strip you

of motive and prudence, and at the same time,

stir you to sacrifice

all you know and think you are

for the simple reason

that there’s no reason not to,

nothing worth holding back or onto

and nothing else at all worth doing.     

O child of God, cast yourself without cause

into that ultimate, impenetrable mystery.