A Love-Hate Relationship

A Diamante poem about the fine line between two age-old emotions.

A Diamante poem written for Week 13, Poetic Explorations.

Love!
respected, perfected
charming, captivating, compelling
smitten, passionate; hostile, antipathy
disliking, detesting, despising
neglected, rejected
Hate!

Author's Notes:
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape with the following format:

Line 1: Subject
Line 2: Two adjectives describing the subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the subject, two about the antonym of the subject
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym
Line 7: Antonym of the subject