to revere is to be disrespectful; <br />it is offensive <br />for to revere is to set up divisions <br />between the mighty and the inferior <br />between the wise and the fool <br />between the weak and the strong; <br />reverence is a sign <br />of one’s greed and self-interest <br />in the games of power and self-preservation; <br />it is insulting to life <br />to fear, to revere <br />and to set up hierarchies of saints <br />and great people and genius <br />and the powerful and the weak <br />the Omnipotent and the Impotent <br />and sinner and the pure, oh so pure, <br />and the holy and the unholy <br />and an order of high life and low life <br />and the Omnipotent, Oh we must not forget the Omnipotent <br />ooh, so Importantly Omnipotent – <br />but one simply loves; <br />and it is not love that has a hierarchy <br />and it is not love that differentiates – <br />one loves; <br />one does not revere <br />one does not fear <br />one is not in awe <br />but one loves – <br />no matter how Resplendent <br />or you may be God <br />or you may be a worm <br />or you may be a power <br />but one does not revere or fear <br />but one loves, <br />each the same, <br />undifferentiated<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reverence-4/
