True and false

True and false                                                                                                  
 
I am your one true Friend, said Meher.
Which means, I gather, all my other friends
 
are false (and vice versa); false
in a heedless, human sort of way.
 
God have mercy on our faithless little selves
as we try to piece and hold the world together,
 
toe the mark, keep the faith, imitate the Christ
and practice the holy Presence of God;
 
as we try to grasp the skirt of the one true Friend –
true as in faithful
 
and true as in the only One beyond falsity,
weakness, ignorance and illusion.
 
O child of God, escape the duplicity of this world
by entering the realm of the Other.