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Love vs Lust
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Ended June 30, 2017 • 37 Entries • Created by justaperson
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jwelker76 in Romance & Erotica
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Closing the Distance

I am distracted, sitting in the library,

by the smell of a girl 

on my fingers. If I went to the bathroom

and opened my pants I would

smell her there as well. 

We will never see each other again,

we never even exchanged numbers,

but I cannot do anything 

in that moment but smell her on

me and remember the way our

bodies collided, our hips cracked,

our parched mouths met, our sweat

mingled on a mattress on the floor

in the sunlight, our hairs matted.

She is not the girl I will wake up 

beside for years, that I will

race across town in the dead of night

in the rain to find an 24-hour

pharmacy for because she got

food poisoning at her cousin's 

wedding and spent hours throwing up, 

that I will end up sewing with needle

and thread the gash in her knee from

when she tripped running up the stairs

to tell me she had been transferred

to Portland, that I moved to Portland

with because the idea of not being 

in the same bed, in the same shower, 

eating off the same dishes, our dirty

laundry not swirling around like

cotton candy was a thought akin to

letting cancer win. Eventually, of course,

it did, and the chemicals and hope

we poured into a finite bowl of ourselves

proved insufficient, and I went back

to the library, and sat in the same chair

and held my hand to my face and inhaled

deeply, a different scent filling my head,

making my vision swim, the smell of

rhododendrons in the arboretum

in Portland, where I took her for her

birthday, and where I looked out and her

in the green fields surrounded by pink,

white, purple blossoms, each one vulgar and

tawdry beside her, each one a crumpled tissue

on a stem, and the sunlight coming down

and the birds singing, and every little thing

in this miserable unheaven was perfect

and thought, So this is love.

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EnjeckCleo in Romance & Erotica
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A clear difference

Lust--"I love fucking you,"

Love--"I fucking love you,"

How can two statements be so similar yet so different?

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dustygrein in Romance & Erotica
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Profound, Yet Simple

Lust is all about getting

what I want and need;

love is about giving

what you want and need.

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LadyRB in Romance & Erotica
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Love vs Lust

Lust is wanting to fall into bed with someone for one night.

Love is wanting to wake up with the one every morning.

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Vyxyn in Romance & Erotica
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Fake vs Real

Lust is conditional. It has limits.

Lust is always one sided not thinking about what the other person wants or feels.

Lust desires to obtain the object it wants at the moment, then after it gets what it desires, it throws it away like trash.

Lust only lives in the second.

Love behaves very different.

Love is unconditional and has no limits is never one sided and always thinks first of the other person before it's own wants or feelings.

Love is all encompassing, all enduring and infinite. With great Love one can do anything.

Love is your past, present and future.

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Cover image for post Selfish\VS/Selfishness, by CreativeChaos
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CreativeChaos in Romance & Erotica
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Selfish\VS/Selfishness

Lust is selfishness desire

That we get occasionally 

And fades away quickly 

Like fog in the morning 

Love is selfish existing being

That will take things from you 

And will make you do things 

You never thought you would do

But you would.

#Philosophy 

#Love-VS-Lust

#Giving-VS-Taking 

#Selfish-VS-Selfishness 

#Eternity-VS-Temporary

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ArthurHB in Romance & Erotica
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If I had been more patient;

If I had spoken words that last forever - not minutes;

If I had written more often;

If I had just stopped and observed you for a while;

Maybe then I could have called it love. 

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SelfTitled in Romance & Erotica
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L-Word

It's at the tip of my tongue

and I want to say it to you

those four letters that hurt to talk about

biting away at my heart

that lurches to you, dear friend,

who yearns so badly for that

touch I give you--

when you want it:

that l-word that cuts and bites

that trails kisses down my neck

marking me up so nicely-- that l-word

that jerks and thrusts in and out

back arching, lip biting, eye watering l-word

that I don't want

because mine is different from you's.

©SelfTitled, 2017

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PoeticMC in Romance & Erotica
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The Commonality

The common denominator between love and lust is none other than desire, riddled with fire.

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LadyTimeLord85 in Romance & Erotica
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Want and Need

Lust is in the act, Love is the before and after, and you need both. 

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