No Return

When we say I love asking for nothing in return, do we really mean what we say? In the context of relationships, clearly our love is a mutual exchange. Even if we don't give or receive the same things, there is an inherent reciprocity. However, I believe such love exists - love asking for nothing in return. It may not be romantic, it may be something purer and unable to be classified - some amorphous genuine feeling and longing... where it is enough to give, even in a vacuum, because it is something inside of you that needs to be given. The kind of love that needs no recognition, has no goodbyes, no form, no shape, cannot be carried, cannot be remembered - existing only for those few moments, as if life itself has come alive, and fading just as unobtrusively into nothingness.