TO LOVE OR BE LOVED

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would you rather live or die

is like asking would you rather love or be loved

would you rather give than take

rather fly or sink

to love is to participate

to consent to sound and feel your inner quake

to be your very best 

inclined towards sacrifice 

to lay martyr before an oncoming train 

sprawled out in submission to the track

to love is better than to be loved 

the loved one is not fully awake

just spoon fed 

living in a daze, wistful 

chewing on a thought, ever-distracted tiring swiftly

the one who is loved is adrift

and could be a speck, a mite, 

an image that never ever exists

none of this matters because the lover chooses to live