It humbles me to know that, as overcome as I am by my love, it is not special. All the stars above have seen it millions of times before, it is not new. Each tree and each stone I walk by recognize me as a lover, thinking: there is yet another. So many creatures have carried this very torch before, and right now, even - I have so many siblings in love. Every poem I write has been written before. Everything I dare to dream has been conjured up by the captive mind of another sleeping beau. We are millions - we who know of rapture without God. Except that is not true: we do know God. God is love itself. It has already taken our souls. For eternity, I presume - I really do not know. Maybe the option to have my soul back is there, but I would not choose it. I do not want it to return.
There is no coming back from knowing God. There is no other faith that could be taught to me that I would be able to hold. All who claim to be gods are but spirits that wander the world, looking to not be forgotten. They are no more than me. They are no less alone.
I am godlike, for I carry God ablaze in me, eternally, like a star. It sparked inside me, inadvertently, lightning struck. Its embers were already glowing within when I was born, and after I dispose of this body, they will continue to burn. It transcends my humanity, my mortality - every little cell that conforms me, is ruled by it. It is above me, it is before me - I come after. I am a prideful individual, self-absorbed, and yet, I like it this way. Love can have my ego and throw it into the ocean for all I care. Love can let my ego drown. I am a willing slave to love. It was never an accident: I chose it, wholehearted. I chose to love, this much, this many, this long, this deep and hard and raw. Love is the rope climbed up by my soul from Hell to Heaven. Love is what unifies all the lives I ever had. Love defined me, and the world around. It created us all. From love we all spawn and to love we shall return.