But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process it concerns essences, and it means power.
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup.Īs it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.
The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal.
“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God.
