sex+love+confusion

"After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside of you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don't try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it's nothing after all, everything is filling up finally and absolutely with death. After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you... you don't even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it's obviously your own damn fault. You haven't been able to - to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but you can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart."

- "Lust" by Susan Minot.