Amor Te No Absolvat

("Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving..." from The Inferno by Dante Gabriel Rosetti)

You have been beloved
I know, for I have loved you
With all my heart, too well.

Do you love as you should?
Can you shoulder the burden
To love wholly,
To give yourself over completely
To a beloved?

Love requires it, demands it --
You have been loved
So learn from that love,
For love you must, or die
Unfulfilled, incomplete,
And alone.