Loving God

I think you cannot love God 
without loving life,
loving this creation that as such
includes yourself
and all your biological connections: 

blood vessels, for example, 
such specific contents: 
as blood cells, red and white,
serum and antibodies,
each with a role. 

In yourself, you encompass many worlds, 
none of your making;
their responsibility to you
not allowed to rest 
until death, when it comes, shuts you down; 

in itself may offer relief 
to experienced pain
in body, psyche, or brain;  
but then when pain, 
like a wildfire is uncontained: 

death is at that moment a gift 
wiping out all pain: 
even the memory of pain:
no brain, no memory, 
no pain.