Lust

 

Photo by cottonbro studio

Recall to the time we got awfully close

to things we might not oppose

so much to expose

love was the only word we used to endorse

for the act of removing one's clothes

I supposed

Revisiting this piece from 2013 feels like looking through an old lens. I wrote this during a time when I was fascinated by the thin, often blurred line between genuine affection and mere desire.

published originally in kompasiana