Love Does not Forget,

        Shimmering Inside from

       Everlasting to Everlasting

“Paul Cartledge reminds us that ‘the ancient Greek word for “truth” meant literally “not forgetting”.’” Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 22

A truth cannot be lost while we still live

No more than God forgets the cross, or Christ

Outside the tomb.  Christ rises to forgive.

There in those moments sin is cleanly sliced

Away forever.  Since all sins are fraud,

They disappear into the inverse of

Eternity. Since truth is far too broad

To make exemptions in the width of love,

The unforgiven sins must vanish too

Like black holes that collide.  Since love goes far

Past memory, love is truer than the true

That ancient Greeks remembered — like a star

That never had beginning and can not

End.  God will never say the word, “Forgot.”

Do not forget that love is love.

Recall, recall that novae-like truth.  Love lives

Forever, lived before the rest, above

All merest things, and, loving, it forgives:

The one great truth that most forget.  They lose

Their vision of the star-like crux, the fact

Of perfect charity.  This loss brings bruise

And scar behind the eyeballs.  God’s great act

Alone can make the blind to see, the lame

To leap, the leper to have flesh as sweet

As fruit on Eden’s trees before the blame

Forgetting caused.  The fruit that we should eat

Is perfect and eternal.  If you bite

It, it will shimmer where there is no night.

by phillipw | Apr 28, 2020 | GO, LO | 0 comments