What is humanity without it?
Transcendent, omniscient, inhumane.
Love does not ask it, cruelty begs it
but the cruel themselves are free.
They say
ask and you shall receive,
but
the reply begs more.
It is religion, word and letter,
but religion may claim to be without it,
some would say religion springs
from its presence or at least
the absence of something more concrete.
And when we stop
what do we become?
Encased in lines, numbers and rules.
Sure.
Is it an end worth the loss?
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I really like this, by the way. It's great...As for why I guessed death, we wouldn't be humans without it. Our lives are defined by the inevitable end. Otherwise we'd be "transcendent", the whole, everything...Religion claims to have the answer with the promise of afterlife and there would be no such organizations without fear of death...Love doesn't ask for it because it wants to hold onto the beauty of existence, while the cruel are unaffected by it and therefore are more free from the compassion that binds us to physical forms...That's what I interpreted.
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An excellent interpretation, I never thought of it that way, that is why I love it when other people read my work. Thank you so much.
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Death?
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Why.
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