Divine Subversion

By Dr. Patty Gently on June 25, 2025

Image description: A red anarchist A with the letters g-a-p-e and a heart to spell the word agape, the selfless, pure, and even divine sort of love. This is a symbol and a statement, both. Created by Dr. Patty.

Bright Insight Support Network founder and president Dr. Patricia Gently supports gifted and twice-exceptional adults in their own autopsychotherapy through identity exploration, structured reflection, and alignment with inner values. A writer, educator, and 2e adult, Dr. Patty centers depth, integrity, and complexity in all aspects of her work.

Divine Subversion

Not every fire devours.

Some smolder beneath silence,

refusing to rise in tidy plumes,

answering to no chimney, no sky.

Love,

the kind without ledger or leash,

does not genuflect

before the architecture of enough.

It speaks in tongues

of breath and upheaval,

a syntax ungoverned by symmetry,

a grammar unraveled from law.

It binds to nothing.

It kneels before no altar of worth.

No oath.

No claim.

Only the wild pull

to give without permission,

to walk beside,

without leading, owning, or fixing.

What is agape

if not the undoing

of every threshold that asks

you first become worthy?

A rebellion made of tenderness,

a riot soft enough

to dissolve the scaffolding

of supremacy,

and the dogma that mistakes

usefulness for value.

It razes no kingdoms,

only the blueprints

that mistook control

for connection,

and taught us to earn

what we already are.