THE ABSENCE OF PRESENCE.

Denise Adaya Marcel

What is love?

The absence of fear.

The absence of rage.

The absence of retribution.

The absence of duality.

The absence of causality.

The absence of invisibility.

The absence of need.

The absence of superiority.

The absence of inferiority.

The absence of dogma.

The absence of rules causing separation.

The absence of the victimized-nation.

The absence of weakness.

The absence of smallness.

The absence of mediocrity.

The absence of laziness.

The absence of decay.

The absence of immobility.

When hollowness sings 

songs empty of these things, 

Love remains in refrains

of "No One Gets Out Alive,

So Why Not Be the Mythical Being, 

why not be the King of Heroes....

the King of Everything.

(To a Creator Omnipotent, 

frailty is transgression's quotient.

Creators make nothing gutless!

If you are appointed to the image of a Supreme Being,

this means you transgress against yourself

when you feign helplessness.)