Since love cannot be forced, we are free,
and, being free, may countermand the good.
Easier to sink in ego's catastrophe
than lift with the sun as sunflowers should.
Since love cannot be forced, we are free.
"I will not have a God who is myself,"
a poet said. So what is this freedom worth?
Only to search out perfection's wealth
and mirror the paragon that gave us birth.
Since love cannot be forced, we are free.