PrinceMyshkin
06-09-2010, 07:27 AM
Who could measure the depth
of their disagreement
or of their love for each other?
“The trouble with you,”
one had been saying over and over
for ‘God’ knew how many years,
“is that you can’t see that ‘soul’
etcetera are just metaphors.”
To which the other had long ago
and often replied, “The trouble with you
is that you cannot see!”
But each rejoiced in the other’s
momentary, mortal triumph
over him. Each victory
(temporary, of course) was chalked up
to their friendship.
The one worshipped
the blatant evidence of God’s goodness
in the other; the other thought
that to love his friend was enough:
his gullibility, his childlike desire
to fit every square peg in a waiting
round hole. God, if I may presume,
never offered to settle the quarrel between them
(if quarrel it was).
of their disagreement
or of their love for each other?
“The trouble with you,”
one had been saying over and over
for ‘God’ knew how many years,
“is that you can’t see that ‘soul’
etcetera are just metaphors.”
To which the other had long ago
and often replied, “The trouble with you
is that you cannot see!”
But each rejoiced in the other’s
momentary, mortal triumph
over him. Each victory
(temporary, of course) was chalked up
to their friendship.
The one worshipped
the blatant evidence of God’s goodness
in the other; the other thought
that to love his friend was enough:
his gullibility, his childlike desire
to fit every square peg in a waiting
round hole. God, if I may presume,
never offered to settle the quarrel between them
(if quarrel it was).