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First I had to figure out what in the hell the poem was about – not what it meant, merely what it was about. There is the speaker, a 2nd party and a 3rd party – that thing “you” love, “my God”, “my center”, perhaps identified with the soul and God simultaneously? The other party appears to be a would-be lover, who loves something: “that thing I hold in my dreams”; which makes it the thing you (the speaker) also love. Yet, it “cannot scratch the surface of my [your]...unconquerable love”. And so I conclude that this write is about differing interpretations of God.
Forgive my excessive literalism. I can’t help it. It’s just me. Some parts, like part 4 are easier to understand by themselves, others seem contradictory.
As for the rhythm – simply marvelous! I truly like it. And the message, while unclear, bleeds through like a blurred image, giving us a hint of what you’re intending, which is spiritually elevated. I think it’s been subsumed by the rhythm, and this is unfortunate – perhaps a characteristic of the times, or perhaps of the subject matter. After all, putting one’s apprehension of spiritual matters into human words is near-impossible. One can refer to God, but, as Meister Eckhart put it, “Whatsoever you say of God is necessarily untrue”.
Alcuin

by Alcuin of York on June 30 2007