Love's opposite (taken from my poem in our class paper)

Love has also an opposite

We feel love like there's no other thing in this world
Fear is it's opposite
It is something I learned.

Casting through the shadows,
We fear
That in love's embrace we wallow
As it approaches us so near.

We think that hate is it's opposite
But fear is
It has never been sweet
And still, no bliss.

Now we all know,
Fear is love's opposite
Hate is what we know,
But we love more.

----> Meaning: It is our choice if we want to love. Fear is love's opposite because many do fear to love. Why is that? Maybe because they are afraid to get hurt or feel hurt.

But according to Bertrand Russel and Earl Russel:

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

-------------------> This is so true...