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Can platonic love be as strong and intense as sexual love?

Illustration for this story "Flight of Alkonost": archiveofourown.org/works/5532…
1 - Alkonost, (Greek: ἀλκυών) is a sea bird symbolizing God’s providence and God’s mercy; mythical bird of paradise from Byzantine and Slavic legends.
Sirin and Alkonost are two inseparable symbols, a pair of opposites. Sorrow and joy, misfortune and happiness, black and white. Sirin was associated with the idea of well-being and happiness. Alkonost is a bird of sadness.
2 - In this version, Weiss and Nero are asexual and have a deep, pure, platonic love for each other. In parts of the poem I was inspired by Byzantine religious poems, mainly by Symeon the New Theologian.
Nero worships Weiss, who is like God to him.

Nero's last love song for Weiss.
“By what boundless mercy, my savior, did you allow me to become a member of your body? Me, the unpure, the defiled, the sinful. You dressed me in the shining veils of your love, bestowed immortality in a blissful life, you turned all my parts into light. Every atom of my body became part of yours, immaculate and graceful.
You shine with the fire of divinity, your love is the greatest gift you have given me. You allowed me, an unclean creature from the rotten world of darkness, to become one with you, with your flawless, pure body, and my blood became your blood. I feel like here I was created again to share your divinity. My lord, I am so happy to become a part of you, to see your beauty, and in everything I look at, I see your radiance, and I myself become a reflection of your infinite glory"

Description
Can platonic love be as strong and intense as sexual love?

Illustration for this story "Flight of Alkonost": archiveofourown.org/works/5532…
1 - Alkonost, (Greek: ἀλκυών) is a sea bird symbolizing God’s providence and God’s mercy; mythical bird of paradise from Byzantine and Slavic legends.
Sirin and Alkonost are two inseparable symbols, a pair of opposites. Sorrow and joy, misfortune and happiness, black and white. Sirin was associated with the idea of well-being and happiness. Alkonost is a bird of sadness.
2 - In this version, Weiss and Nero are asexual and have a deep, pure, platonic love for each other. In parts of the poem I was inspired by Byzantine religious poems, mainly by Symeon the New Theologian.
Nero worships Weiss, who is like God to him.

Nero's last love song for Weiss.
“By what boundless mercy, my savior, did you allow me to become a member of your body? Me, the unpure, the defiled, the sinful. You dressed me in the shining veils of your love, bestowed immortality in a blissful life, you turned all my parts into light. Every atom of my body became part of yours, immaculate and graceful.
You shine with the fire of divinity, your love is the greatest gift you have given me. You allowed me, an unclean creature from the rotten world of darkness, to become one with you, with your flawless, pure body, and my blood became your blood. I feel like here I was created again to share your divinity. My lord, I am so happy to become a part of you, to see your beauty, and in everything I look at, I see your radiance, and I myself become a reflection of your infinite glory"