Love Is Very Intelligent

by Max Carl Kirk

a poetic writing on love and atonement 

Love knows the deepest secrets of the universe,

and when it does not know,

love knows how to learn

and works hard to learn.

Love is able to find the way

to bring justice all around,

when justice is one thing on one side

and another thing on the other side.

Love is able to bring peace to the ear

when its honour has been offended.

Love is always able to follow you,

and if you become lost in your heart,

love is always able to guide you to safety.

Love is the sweet smelling spice in the heart

that, with wisdom, seeks out

the scent of the bitter herb of the heart's insecure pride,

blends it in, heals it, and harmonizes it

in a wondrous fragrance.

Love is the teacher of confidence,

and the best friend of every skill.

Love is a genius in planning things that are good,

and in creating practical visions that come true.

Truth and love do not have different minds,

but listen joyfully to one another

and compose their songs together

and practice how to sing harmony for one another.

Love has the intelligence to know how

to endure the worst violence

and still think tenderly about life.

When all else fails, love is still there,

just being with you,

so gently and quietly

that sometimes you don't even know it,

until love opens its hand to you

with gifts of art and hope

that allow your eyes to again see beauty.

Love is the mother of forgiveness,

and knows how to teach forgiveness 

how to gather up the fragments of

all that is broken in the world

and build them into a house

of grace and order, laughter and joy.

Love is understanding.

Love is the humble student of the Divine;

therefore there are multitudes of wrongs

that love knows how to hide

with such wisdom that they cannot be found again.

Love takes nothing by violence

and keeps nothing by means of violence.

If love has to choose,

love chooses to lose the whole world

to save its soul.