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Love and lust are both four-letter words
That give new feelings unheard.
One makes us smile even at a chirp of a tiny bird
The other makes us feel like a treasure among the herd.
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Love is a divine virtue, pure and clean
While lust is one of the seven deadly sins.
Love is all about caring and giving
While lust is just about pleasure and taking.
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Love gives others belly-butterflies when around you
Lust gives you the illusion of goosebumps untrue.
True love will make you see things clearer
While lust creates haze, you only see what’s near here.
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Love will make us do things that seem hard
That make life easy over the years, without wish for reward.
Lust, in the moment, feels simply satisfying
But makes life chaotic and disharmonious over time.
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Love doesn’t care if others don’t reciprocate
Lust, if you distance, will beg and crave.
Love only needs what’s best for the other
Lust only desires that you misbehave.
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Love is about intimacy and growth, sex is a bonus
Thrives with or without, just one of its many expressions.
Lust starts with sex, most sensual of the senses
Struggles when the spark dies out, sets down like the sun.
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Love is a matter private to the soul
Takes you forward step by step, slowly to the goal.
Lust like greed or gluttony is just a game of the mind
An illusion making you momentarily satisfied
While all the while taking you in rewind.
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Love will get out the best in you
Which everyday, might feel like a struggle.
Lust will bring the worst out of you
Which may seem like a high at start, but ends up a hustle.
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Now if someday, you are ever faced with a choice
Between love for ever or lust for the thrill.
Hope this helps clear the noise of your inner voice
As the hardest choices require the greatest will.
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