Love for God

Love for God                                                                                                   
 
The radio plays another top forty tune
featuring the words faithful, true, forever, –
 
our romantic, love-obsessed culture,
celebrating the brief (however time is measured)
 
thrill and heartache of one human being’s
passionate attachment to another.  
 
But the love for God that Meher exhorts us to realize
is a consummate non-attachment,
 
the cultivation of an interior relationship
liberating the lover from all the extraneous others.
 
This last duplicity ultimately coming to naught
as our separative existence is absorbed into the One.
 
O child of God, abandon a world in which
the word love has lost any real meaning.