Love's mantle

Love’s mantle                                                                                       
 
O Meher, what have You done? 
You’ve asked to be loved!
 
Such words are spoken
and mankind breaks out
 
the racks and whips, scaffolds,
crosses, blades and chains!
 
O the effrontery!  The blasphemy
              of such a request
coming from Your silent, human mouth!
 
God is Love – You say;
nothing matters but love for God.
 
Nothing matters but love for Love.   
You’ve come not to teach the inexplicable,
 
but, to bestow – and receive – Love  
unfathomably.
 
O child of God, words can’t pierce Love’s mantle,
but one bold act might aright a wayward world.
 
                              (from A Jewel in the Dust, 2011)