A footnote to Levinas (12January06—25December95) <br /> <br />Unto his image <br />Unto the image and likeness <br />Of spirit earth flora and fauna <br />From the first sight in darkness <br />God created the Other <br />Man-Woman he created them <br />The Other not other sans another <br />And God became no longer God <br />Without the Other <br />Without you without me <br />Descendants of the Other <br />So now I too am not I <br />Am no one without the Other <br />For which reason <br />Am I responsible for him <br />For her who keeps me <br />In knowing doing being <br />For which reason <br />Am I to give life to him <br />To her who gives me life <br />Being beyond being <br />God sealed the ethic <br />Covenant of the way it is <br />Sent his only begotten Son <br />His Other to the Other <br />In the night of Empire <br />Light to night of fasces <br />Swords prisons gibbets <br />Hunger thirst and loneliness <br />That he she might have life <br />And have it abundantly <br />Again and again he sends <br />His Son in the night <br />Of empire after empire <br />Of guns gas-chambers cartels <br />To confirm the ethic <br />Thou shalt not kill <br />Torture once a thousand times <br />Thou shalt not waste the earth <br />Thou shalt end purges and war <br />Thou shalt give bread and fish <br />Not to appease the stomach <br />But to be savored and enjoyed <br />Today he comes bearing <br />The gift of a commandment <br />Who showed how it was done <br />How it ought to be done as <br />Responsible One to his Father his Other <br /> <br />O the primal holon!<br /><br />Francisco R. Albano<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/god-of-the-other-the-other-of-god/
