Words by: Alice O'Brien

Consider these words as an expression of my love. An expression of love that is soft, elegant and delicate. 

Those three words can be intertwined in ways that express more than just feelings of love. Rather, the three reasons why lust exists for your pages. 

A lust which is not solely focused on the outline of a body, but rather a lust for the thoughts written within the outline of your pages. 

Pages which, on their own, evoke no astounding feelings of love or lust, but when paired with the simple act of writing, make hearts beat and eyes lock. 

I crave your words, Esperanto. I crave the spark I feel in my veins when I read the words that form the sentences that make time stop for a moment. 

I crave Esperanto. But more than that, I crave you.

You. The person reading this. The person who picked up Esperanto, opened its pages and formed their own intertwined feelings for this magazine. 

Crave it. Because maybe we crave lust to crave connection. 

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