Sovereignty of Love

 
Lovers know neither heaven nor hell,

visit neither, seek nor avoid either

full of hope or fear.

Heaven is for egos that do good, hell is for egos that do evil.

They are only dreams of the ego, as is the ego.

The lover is not an ego, the lover is empty, effaced in the beloved,

gladly serving the actual living truth of this.

The lover reflects and embodies, channels and radiates

the Sovereignty of Love.

No ideology known to Human-kind, and no outer garment

of dress or style or appearance or exotic uniformity meant to distinguish,

can ever Be this.

The authority of love, the sovereignty and dominion of love:

concentrated and married to it internally,

manifesting it outwardly here, now and always,

establishing It, rather than an imperial church or a caliphate,

one inherits the earth.

And is good to it.

The lover only acts with lovingkindness

out of sheer love for and appreciation of the divine Being,

or of Being divine, or of life and of giving life.

There is no thought of reward for the lover,

as love is sovereign and no beggar after crumbs.

One's origin and one's destination are one and the same: light.

Sacred song is only called such and experienced so,

insofar as it introduces and projects, establishes into a space or realm

The Absolute Sovereignty of Love,

producing joy, anchored in spirit, in light, nourishing without limit

those living and departed who can receive it.

Even these words are not It.

Yet if they disturb or inspire one single mind,

or move or open one single heart . . .

it's a start.