Men Talk Poetry - December 2001/January 2002

MAKING A CHOICE God cannot judge, love's contradiction. God loves us, like sunshine on a balmy spring day. Totally! Ah but we humans, We can live with contradiction. We can choose to judge and strive to love as well. Judging creating shame; the black hole of love. Like an astronomical black hole sucks All the surrounding energy into it, So judging sucks all the love into the shame. Like pouring a glass of water into a pile of dry, hot sand, Love's power is dissipated, lost. Hungering for love, why is it then, We continue to judge, destroying what we crave? Superior and inferior, good and evil, righteousness! Need judging to exist. Equality achieved when judgings cease, No other time or way. What do we wish for more? Judging, sustaining inequality and shame, Or love, creating world of equality and bliss? Or do we continue insisting on both? Contradiction creating our conflicted world. Oh yes, it's we, not God, create the strife. Particularly, accepted judgment of men's moral perversity, And women's moral betterness--human creation-- Keep judgment's stranglehold alive. And it's our continued choosings of these judgments, That will continue the strife, Or, abandoned, transform our world, So we can bask in love and bliss. Which will we choose? Roy U. Schenk