Love's Theology
Love so you may understand, says Aristotle
I read this with a vague startle.
Love's no ordinary knowledge, says Foucault
who made power/knowledge into an occult.
Love thy neighbor, says the Lord
I'm in complete accord
but with the caveat
he changes his old coat.
Love is absurd, says Camus
an existential muse.
But for Sartre love is joy in action
a fine contraption.
For Luther it meant divine agape
in tension with eros's landscape.
I settle with Plato's art of beauty
and Rousseau's free will instead of duty.
All that's best in theology of love
particularly Dr. King's gift of love,
yet beware of perils of self-love.
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