There are no rules for love

For two voices

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Jesus met a rich young ruler.
“What must I do,” he asked,
“to inherit eternal life?”
“Let go of the one thing that binds you up,
that you cannot let go,
because it is limiting you,”
said Jesus.
Love loves beyond limits:
there are no rules for love.

Jesus told a story
of a foreigner,
coming face to face with a beaten man
on the Jericho road,
and asked the listeners,
“Who is my neighbour?”
“The one who set his Samaritan fears aside
and bound the wounds of his enemy."
Love loves beyond borders:
there are no rules for love.

Jesus told another tale,
of a son,
pockets once full of his father’s inheritance,
now empty,
and having to return with his excuses,
interrupted by a father who breaks his own rules
and runs to his son,
and brings him back home.
Love loves beyond the past:
there are no rules for love.

In the end,
Jesus had said too much.
Feared by authorities and scholars
they twisted his words against him,
and when his words ran out,
he carried a cross,
silently,
where love could be heard crying:
‘I am the word of eternal life.’
Love loves beyond the end:
there are no rules for love.