Is faith, love?
[[Maybe. Go On-> faith]]
Is faith, (css: "color: red;")[love]? (css: "color: red;")[Or]?
(mouseover-replace: "love")[self love]
(mouseover-replace: "Or")[Or is it free will]
[[I don't understand...->true]]
(css: "color: red;")[Is] (css: "color: #a5b8da;")[faith], (css: "color: red;")[self love]? (css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[Or] will?
(mouseover-replace: "faith")[[[blind faith->next]]]
(mouseover-replace: "Or")[[[Or is it->god]]]
(mouseover-replace: "will")[[[free will->will]]]
(css: "color: #a5b8da;")[Can faith be love? Can implict belief breed anything more than enmity and self flaggelation?]
(css: "color: #a5b8da;")[I find [[faith->belief]] in the month of May and it brings me nothing more or less than cherry red cardinals.]//Or is it not a manufuncturers malfunction in [[free will]]?//(css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[//God made cloth not clothes.
I have nothing but the skin on my back and [[love->people]].//]
(css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[Is faith, love?]
[[...->faith]]
Is free will, [[love->choose]]?//Dearest Eurydice,//
//Do not mistake my desire for weakness. Do not mistake my weakness for mailice. Do not mistake my [[love->Untitled Passage 1]] for ignorance.//
//In a million lifetimes, I would trade an eternity of Punishment for one look at you.//(css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[Is faith love in the] [[divine]]. [[Caress]] (css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[love and He'll hold a place once the] [[water rises]].
(mouseover-replace: "Is faith")[Faith is](css: "color: #ffcb6d;") [eternal and most gracious, most merciful, evil, uncaring, orthodox, scriptural, infinitely wise and powerful, insane elder, great, ancient and immortal, glorious lame; wise, good and powerful; possible, pleasing; weak, soft-looking; sore unwilling; bland proper; eternal transcendent; merciful and intelligent; bhaal; dark and omnipresent; murderous; great magnanimous; cosmic or tribal; infinitely good; exceedingly glorious and wonderful; exceedingly glorious; infinite and all-powerful;mad faceless; obscene and repulsive; maimed and demented; gray pagan; spiritual and solitary; far-famed lame; devastatingly hot; silken, nordic; merciless and indifferent; wise but distant; pitiful, dear; present and oppressive; eternal, merciful; infinitely good and powerful; pitiless and barbarous; long-suffering and merciful; prying and all-powerful; unemotional and unimaginative; mysterious aztec; eternal and transcendent; great, tyrannical; honorable and candid; obedient, mighty; invisible omnipresent, personal, immanent, terrific, insatiable, loving more, incomprehensible eternal, merciful and long-suffering; modern olympian; capricious and foolish; ferocious and strange; empirical naturalistic;helpless, wooden; terrifying african;legendary hebraic;supremely loving and wise, supremely loving; high and sovereign; jealous, thy; still alive and mighty; righteous and wrathful; spiritual and inexpressibly exalted; all-powerful, dreadful]
(css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[Faith is love in the divine caress.]
(mouseover-replace: "Faith")[My faith]
(mouseover-replace: "is love")[is in our love.]
(mouseover-replace: "in the divine")[In the [[divine]]]
(mouseover-replace: "caress")[I find its caress strangely warm and imperfect]
[[the end]]
[[try another one->true]](css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[Faith is not enough to stop me from love. Oh, blast our blasphemous selves. Hell shall hold a place for us once the water rises.]
[[the end]]
[[try another one->true]](css: "color: #afa5da;")[My faith is in our love. In the untouchable [[divine]], I find its caress strangely warm and imperfect.
Faith is an oddity of love as I have no reason and yet belief. Blind I could taste it. Deaf I could feel it. An apple by any other name would tempt as sweetly. I am helpless in our immortal graces.]
[[the end]]
[[try another one->true]] Faith is an oddity of love as I have no reason and yet no hate.
Is (css: "color: red;")[blind faith], the implicit belief in laws that which we (css: "color: red;")[self] govern, (css: "color: red;")[love->people]]]?//
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}//Can [[faith->faith2] be love?//
(css: "color: #b6d8b3;")[hi]
(css: "color: #a5b8da;")[//I// grasp the torch, heat bleeding through my hands as the dying embers float like daffodil petals through the air and illuminate the dank, scaly steps in orange light, and //I// scale the grievous steps up the gates of Hell, heart trailing behind me, yearning for a space among my chest again.]
(css: "color: #a5b8da;")[[[And I do not turn around->Untitled Passage 1]].]
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}//My purpose for this piece is to examine the different form of love. I wanted to use reader agency to allow the reader to pick which form of love speaks the most to them, and develop it through poetry and allusions.
I also wanted to play with sentences, adding or taking away words to fit different forms of love.
I hope you enjoyed my piece!//''How to Read''
This Twine is a reader's exploration of love, what it is, and what it can be.
To read, mouse over underlined words to expose links or other text. Pay attention to color through the links. And [[enjoy->Untitled Passage]]!
//Slight Story Explanation:// I reference the Greek Myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. In the story, Eurydice and Orpheus are lovers and upon their wedding day, Eurydice is bitten by a viper and dies, travelling to the Underworld.
Orpheus makes a deal with the god of the Underworld to allow him to go down and bring her out; the only condition is that he must not look back at her as he walks her up and out of the Underworld.
As they reach the precipice of the earth, Orpheus is unable to hold himself back and looks at his lover's face, who whispers a final goodbye before dying once more.