Word: Lust
Definition: Intense or uncontrolled desire, often sexual but not limited to it.
Original Attempt (excerpt):
“Desire takes hold of us. Envelops us. Nothing but us and the desire.”
The Gap:
The gap is the absence of sensation, which is where their alexithymia shows.
Rewrite (embodied):
Lust is hunger in the fingertips. It is heat in the marrow that makes you restless in your own skin. It fogs the glass, makes your tongue stumble, turns restraint into an impossible joke. Lust is impatient. It is neither gentle nor reflective โ it burns, it claws, it wants now.
Rewrite (visceral):
Lust is heat in the spine, not the heart. It is hunger that fogs the glass, that makes your hands clumsy and your pulse impatient. It is wanting so much you mistake consumption for closeness. Lust does not ask โ it claws, it pulls, it burns quick and leaves the skin tingling, half-satisfied and half-ashamed.
Expansion:
Question:
When does lust feel alive, and when does it feel empty?
