Virtues and Vices

Lust

"You love me, don't you?"

His words worsen what he is about to do.

Love is Life's most dangerous game;

Yet men and women are never given the same.

Discord being strewn about is commonplace.

Especially when the challenge is a pretty face.

Whether it be the embodiment of Spring,

Or the goddess who blesses a wedding ring.

Eros and Anteros; the same yet opposite:

Brothers of love, who leave arrows to hit.

One with requited love,

The other who quickly leaves, as if a flighty dove.

Given too freely, it crosses bounds,

Leaving you to feel as though you are running from hounds.