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How Guys write about lust

An Ode to unspoken desires

By CAVEABDUL Published about a year ago 3 min read
How Guys write about lust
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It starts with a glance,

Eyes flicker, then stay too long—

Something stirs deep,

Caught in the heat of a moment.

There, within the curve of a body,

A silhouette under dim light,

Words begin to gather,

Like storm clouds on the horizon.

They’ll tell you it’s simple,

A need, a hunger,

Something primal buried beneath polite smiles,

But listen closely to how it unfolds.

It’s in the way fingers tap against glass

While they wait for a response

From the one who keeps them up late,

A message unanswered,

A heartbeat racing in the silence.

The mind spins its web,

Creating a story where there was none—

Desire stretched thin like silk threads,

The kind that catch light,

But can snap in an instant.

They’ll say it’s a chase,

The thrill of the hunt,

Bodies moving in rhythms

Older than language.

But there’s more in the dance of words,

The pauses between confessions,

Where lust hides,

Breathing in anticipation.

A touch becomes a novel.

The brush of skin,

Electric, charged,

Wires crossed between thoughts of

“What if?”

And the recklessness of

“Why not?”

How do they write about it, you ask?

Not with the poetry of love,

No, love demands patience.

Lust is impatient, urgent.

It finds its way into sentences

That trail off too soon,

Into metaphors that burn

But never quite settle.

There’s no room for slow revelations,

No lingering at the door.

Lust doesn’t knock;

It pushes its way in,

Uninvited but never unwelcome.

You’ll see it in their letters,

Between lines of small talk,

Where something sharp cuts through—

A casual compliment,

But laced with suggestion.

An invitation to a conversation

That doesn’t need words.

It’s always in the body,

The space between two people,

Closer, closer still.

A slow inhale,

A moment stretched thin

Until it snaps,

And what was thought can no longer

Be contained in the mind.

The body speaks what the mouth cannot—

Hands find their way,

Mapping skin,

Fingers tracing the geography of desire.

They write in gasps,

In stolen moments,

The way time blurs when the world shrinks

To just the sensation of another.

But there’s more,

Always more beneath the surface.

Lust is not simply the fire,

It’s the smoke that lingers,

The scent left behind long after

The flame has died down.

It haunts,

It follows,

It presses against the back of the mind

In quiet moments when one is supposed

To think of anything but.

In the rhythm of the words,

In the urgency of the sentences,

You’ll hear it—

The unspoken,

The things left hanging in the air,

Caught between desire and hesitation.

They write about the wanting,

About the need

That grows with each passing glance,

Each accidental touch.

It builds like a song,

A crescendo that never quite hits the final note,

Always just out of reach,

Always unfinished.

Lust isn’t a story with a beginning or an end—

It’s a feeling that lingers,

It stays in the air long after

The moment has passed.

It’s in the spaces between words,

The things they don’t say,

The things they won’t say,

Except in the silence

Of two bodies speaking louder

Than any letter could.

They’ll write it in fragments,

In broken verses,

In half-finished thoughts

That echo in the mind,

Because lust isn’t tidy,

It’s messy,

It’s fleeting but unforgettable.

You’ll find it in the pauses,

In the gaps between breaths,

Where words fail

And something else takes over.

Lust isn’t written with the hands,

It’s felt with the skin,

In the spaces where stories

Are left untold

But understood all the same.

So how do they write about lust?

With eyes that linger,

With hands that tremble,

With hearts that beat too fast

For words to keep pace.

It’s in the urgency of a look,

The recklessness of a touch,

The way desire slips through the cracks

Of carefully constructed sentences,

Leaving behind nothing

But the heat

Of what was left unsaid.

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About the Creator

CAVEABDUL

Writer exploring creativity and human experiences. Sharing stories, ideas, and thoughts on life, culture, and personal growth.

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