Love

Apathy… and deep devotion,
Strongest of living emotion.
Binding people to each other
Pitting brother against brother.
Fulfilling hopes and quelling fears,
Breaking dreams and calling tears.
Forging bonds of dedication,
Forcing spiteful separation
Protecting like perfect armour
Bringing to internal fracture
Banishing all trace of sorrow
Forcing hope of no tomorrow.
Paving paths with blind forgiveness,
Destroying all in raging vengeance.
Love is both strife and harmony
For it walks the twofold path
Of ecstasy and agony,
Of serene calm and raging wrath.