No Choice, Just Free Will

The Lover of God has no choice,

only free will. For God is love,

and s/he is alone in love with That, in repose,

while all other living forms receive this love.

Whether s/he succors a child or swats a pest,

sweats under pressure or demonstrates poise,

presses house pet or house patient to his or her breast,

s/he hears but one tone, and speaks with one voice:

no choice has s/he, but only free will –

driving to work or fooling about, whispering, singing,

shopping, napping or shouting, even in agitation still,

mounting the barricades in decibles ringing!

Alone never lonely, in times of fear fearless,

lending courage and encouragement: quality of heart

sets the tone sets the pace, even when stern a gentle face

showing life, two ears for hearing, one mouth to impart

this most intimate love, and the secret of it,

hidden in the glance, a gesture, a word, an action,

revealed in a touch, brimming with health, listening with vigor

for the call to serve an awakening, responding when it comes,

breaking rules of rhyme but never reason, inspired only

with the drawing of one breath: open perspectives, no conclusions,

only truth – no trips or sales pitch, no friend of delusions.

All is sacred, nothing special, in-joy-meant shared with all wholly

in order that the Lover of God be enriched, and so this world,

for having no choice, but only free will: to see that all is holy –

in light, in darkness, Love in action, destiny revealed.