To love and to be loved

[ziziwrites]

To love and to be loved
I have come to learn
Is the greatest sin of all

To devote fully
Yourself to a person
Who, if they so wish
Could cast you into the fires of hell
And you would resign to it
All because you were in love

To love and to be loved
I realize
Is the greatest pain of all

To exist solely
For another
Even, if worst comes to worst
They do not return the sentiment
But you would never hold it against them
All because you were in love

To love and to be loved
I know
Is that which I would die for.