Lust [luhst]
- noun
intense sexual desire or appetite
you know that's all we had;
"love" is a bed time joke
and "happily-ever-afters" are stories that haven't finished yet,
don't fool yourself into making this something it's not
Greed [greed]
-noun
excessive or rapacious desire
funny how those two sound so alike...
you offered me the world,
and though I said I didn't want to be greedy,
I just didn't want something else as dysfunctional as you.
Sloth [slawth]
-noun
habitual disinclination to exertion; idolence; laziness
It's always good to have a back-up definition of you
(though "second rate" works too)
Envy [en-vee]
-noun
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another
this was just a five-second-fling
dragged out for far too long.
so baby envy doesn't even come into this equation
Gluttony [gluht-n-ee]
-noun
habitual eating to excess
as sweet as you were
I can only eat so much
before I want to vomit.
Pride [prahyd]
-noun
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
you always threw that at me
like the words alone had edges sharp enough to make me bleed.
We both knew you had a venomous desire
to see my blood on your hands.
Wrath [rath]
-noun
strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.
we just don't compare because baby boy,
I'll drop-kick your heart into the next century.



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