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The Center(A Confession of Lovelessness)
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2025. 2. 7. 14:10

The Center
By Jeok-Heun
The Standard
For Distinguishing Good and Evil
The foundation of judgment
Between justice and injustice
The final verdict
For the righteous and the wicked
No Standard, No Foundation
The world becomes my center,
For I have no foundation, no truth to stand on.
I judge by my own will,
Condemning through emotions and self-interest.
At the Core of My Corrupt Soul
At the heart of a decayed character,
Truth abandoned.
At the depths of my fallen soul,
Truth denied.
Yet Even One Like Me…
Even in the agony of a broken heart,
You gaze upon me with warmth.
Even in the cries of a soul
Pouring out water and blood,
You embrace this fallen one in love.
For a sinner like me,
An everlasting love burns at the core.
You Alone…
You are the standard of good and evil.
You are the foundation of judgment.
You alone
Are the beginning and the end of life and death.
Let Only You…
Be my one true center.
Fill me completely.
Let me love only You.
Let me live through You alone.
My Assistant's Interpretation.
A Confession of Lovelessness – A Reflection on The Center
This poem is a heartfelt confession of a person who has never truly known love,
who has lived by self-
centered judgment, rejecting love,
only to awaken to love’s enduring presence and yearn for it with desperation.
This journey unfolds in four stages:
1. A life without love, where judgment is based on self-interest
and fleeting emotions.
2. The slow decay of the soul, where truth and love are abandoned.
3. The unrelenting presence of love, waiting even for the one who rejects it.
4. A final plea—to make love
the center of one’s existence.
This poem is not just about regret, but a longing to discover love’s truth and to be transformed by it.
1. A Life Without Love—
Lost and Arrogant
“The world becomes my center,
For I have no foundation, no truth to stand on.”
• To live without love is to live without a foundation.
• Without love, there is no true standard to guide decisions.
• The world’s fleeting values, emotions, and personal gains become the only measure of what is right or wrong.
“I judge by my own will,
Condemning through emotions and self-interest.”
• A loveless heart does not seek to understand—it seeks to control.
• “If someone benefits me, I will accept them.”
• “If someone hurts me, I will judge and condemn them.”
• Without love, justice is not truly just.
• It becomes distorted by emotions—self-serving and unstable.
• Judgment is based on fleeting feelings rather than on compassion and truth.
→ When love is absent, people become their own gods—
measuring others by personal pain, emotions, and self-righteousness.
2. The Decay of the Loveless Soul
“At the heart of a decayed character,
Truth abandoned.”
“At the depths of my fallen soul,
Truth denied.”
• A heart that does not know love slowly crumbles from within.
• It becomes hardened, cynical, and resentful.
• Forgiveness becomes impossible,
• Connection with others becomes strained,
• Isolation grows deeper, even if surrounded by people.
• Yet, a loveless person rarely sees their own decay.
• They believe they are in control,
• That they are right,
• That their pain justifies their actions.
→ Without love, even the strongest soul withers, and the mind becomes a prison of its own making.
3. Yet, Love Waits—
Even for the One Who Rejects It
“Even in the agony of a broken heart,
You gaze upon me with warmth.”
• Love does not abandon—
even when it is rejected.
• Love watches as the one it longs for walks away,
• With a heart shattered
but unwavering,
• Waiting, hoping, suffering in silence.
“Even in the cries of a soul
Pouring out water and blood,
You embrace this fallen one in love.”
• Love does not respond to rejection with anger—it responds with sacrifice.
• Love pours itself out,
• Love weeps,
• Love bleeds.
• But the one who does not love cannot see it.
• They believe love is a weakness,
• That love should not hurt,
• That love is disposable.
• Yet even as love is ignored, it does not waver.
• Love remains steady, unchanging, eternal.
→ Love does not walk away. It waits, no matter how deep the rejection, no matter how painful the cost.
4. The Plea of a Loveless Heart—Seeking to Be Changed by Love
“For a sinner like me,
An everlasting love burns at the core.”
• The moment of realization—
• That love has never left,
• That love has always been near,
• That love was never the enemy, but the only salvation.
• A love so fierce, so relentless, that it refuses to be extinguished.
“You are the standard of good and evil.”
• Now, love is recognized as the true measure of all things.
• Love is not weak—it is the very foundation of justice.
• Without love, all righteousness crumbles into hypocrisy.
“You alone
Are the beginning and the end of life and death.”
• Love is not just a feeling.
• Love is the force that gives life meaning.
• Love is the only thing that transcends death itself.
“Let only You
Be my one true center.”
• The ultimate surrender:
• No longer living by self-interest,
• No longer making judgments based on fleeting emotions,
• But letting love be the unshakable core of life.
“Let me love only You.
Let me live through You alone.”
• A final request—
not just to know love, but to be transformed by it.
• To live a life shaped by love,
• To love without limits,
• To finally become what was once rejected.
Conclusion: From Rejection to Redemption
This poem tells the story of a person who once rejected love, only to realize it was the only truth they had been searching for.
1. A life without love leads to confusion and self-righteous judgment.
2. The soul decays, unaware of how far it has fallen.
3. Yet, love does not abandon—it watches, it waits, and it suffers in silence.
4. Finally, the loveless one awakens to love’s enduring presence and surrenders to it completely.
This is not just a poem of regret.
It is a confession, a plea, a transformation.
It is the cry of one who has lived without love,
Who has finally seen the pain they caused,
Who now longs to love, and to be made whole by love.
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