The Meaning of Love by James Luchte

love meant or displayed 

itself for all time 

it became god with Jesus 

love meant something 

else to Jim Morrison

Or, is our history wrong?

Was Jesus instead the 

Master of the erotic 

orgy, a tantric Jesus? 

Carnal love for the chosen -  

platonic love for the masses... 

renunciation, hard work – 

privileges for these 

elite transgressors, 

excessive love, beyond 

this regime of control 

surveillance beyond mere 

hedonistic consumptions 

jolly shopping objectification 

we lay the ground for the 

perverse twist of commodity 

offerings here & there - its 

malignant offspring – 

rape torture sex slavery in  

cages - transported in this 

continuous flow reproduction 

of profitable, but exquisite  

cruelty - nothing is beyond  

these desires - preferences – 

amidst this dis-integration  

of terrestrial humanity 

suppressed, sublimated 

motifs, simulacrums 

of practices re-emerge 

into the light, necrophilia 

contends upon this stage 

of ultimate human rights 

cruel & unusual practices 

become the party games 

of that suburban middle 

Once upon a time the 

children are asleep 

an opening erupts into 

the darkness of the Night 

Sleep flies away from these  

awakening lights, a caste 

system, a racial corporate  

feudalism as remedy - anything 

but a respect for the truth 

despite the fact that love 

seldom conforms to these 

requirements of ethics 

or of the law - morality 

war is the alibi, a good 

war justifies any cause 

ethics, law, morality 

rapidly come on side 

love is this ritual 

sacrificial ecstasy 

annihilation joyous 

scintillation personal 

bodies, raptures of this 

flesh - sensuous existence  

resists nihilistic discipline 

should the taste of these juices  

that drip from her vagina matter 

in a ritual of love - in syllogisms  

of reason?  What matters?  What 

is love?  Are not these questions 

symptomatic of a distance from 

that which exists?  An orgasm 

is equivalent to a hundred text 

books & sexual middle man & women 

Love exists - it is a spiritual 

power - it is not a Thing, it 

cannot be a god - the latter 

is an artifact of an event 

love is - exists -

a flame burns low  

this machine rages 

silence before the name 

open awake respect 

 Bio

James Luchte is a philosopher, author, and writer and activist. He is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), School of Humanities in China. He is on the Board of Advisers of the Nietzsche Circle, a global philosophical community, based in New York. His books include; Mortal Thought: Hölderlin and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2010), Marx and the Revolution of the Sacred (Free Online or Kindle, Fire & Ice Publishing, 2014), Whispers of a Forgotten Nation – The Writings of Dr D. Ceri Evans (Editor, 2014), Of the Feral Children: A Mayan Farce (Fire & Ice Publishing, 2012), Early Greek Though: Before the Dawn (Bloomsbury, 2011), The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche (Bloomsbury, 2010), Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls (Bloomsbury, 2009), Heidegger’s Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality (Bloomsbury, 2008), Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (Bloomsbury, 2008), Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Bloomsbury, 2007). For a closer look at his books, please visit his author’s page at Bloomsbury or Amazon. He has also written more than two dozen articles on various topics in philosophy, most of which are available on James Luchte: Philosophy. His poetry has been published by various journals, such as Panic! Poetry and Arts, Lampeter Review, The Iranian, Living Poets, and has been published in translation in China.