This Great Love Inside Me
love
lyric poem
gentle
This Great Love Inside Me - meaning Summary
Vast Love in Smallness
The poem reflects on the apparent contradiction between human smallness and the vastness of love. The speaker wonders how such an immense feeling can exist within a body that seems insignificant. The closing image of the eye answers the question: small things can contain or perceive realities far larger than themselves. It presents love as an inward capacity that exceeds physical scale.
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by Coleman Barks
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