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Dre Guthrie May 2015
If I could manage to swallow
that growing sense of dread between my
shivering, pale lips, then it would
be much easier to take the lead.

Would I be free of emotional instabilities
the moment my boxers slipped to the floor?
Is that how this works? Where do my hands
even go in the first place?

If I could make my eyes flicker closed
as you lean in to steal my breaths by
means of unwelcome inquiry, perhaps
my heart would cease lamenting.

I could probably say all I wanted in the matter
and plead my case, but when society's the prosecutor,
chances are my legs would be required to stay
open 24/7, like a convenience store.

I'm sorry. I can't fix this, it's not something to be
fixed. I've failed as a basic human and cannot function
without regrets and anger. Besides, there are nicer
sorts around. Find them instead.

Remove your hands from my chest, your mouth from
my mottled shoulder. This is a convenience store that
never opens.
Dre Guthrie May 2015
The morning skips over the night's heavy back
with a golden spring in its pattering steps.
Moon kisses Sun goodbye as he leaves for work.
The two celestial boys in the sky whisper in early dawn.

It's a bright day today, cloudless and buoyant like
honeydew blossoms in the scented wind. Today is
the Sun's domain, smiling down to press gentle hands
against warm skin.

He loves those days, just as he loves the delicate boy
lingering behind the wispy clouds of night. In passing,
he wishes for another chance to bump shoulders on
morning's scarlet horizons, two hands clasped in rosy-fingered dawn.

He wishes to keep it forever, to swallow the moonlight between
parted lips. Ah, that lunar boy.

Beautiful lunar boy.
Dre Guthrie May 2015
The thing that annoys me most about the scars on my wrist
are that people take it as a way to tell me what I am.
Emo, right? Daddy didn't like you? Maybe if you were cuter, someone would care. You should've finished the job.

I'm hurting, always, and, in nights so cold that my hands
shake under my blankets, I dream of a tomorrow
in which it was my neck hanging on the oak tree
outside that suburban neighborhood.

That's not for you to decide.

I'm sorry, but I don't think I gave you the right to tell me
who I am and who I'm not. No one determines who should
be dead or not, except for that person and fate. And until the
day my neck snaps, or my wrists bleed, or my eyes close...

**I will not let a stranger determine my own life.
Dre Guthrie May 2015
**** the sinners, love the saints.
Love the children, they'll be great
one day, until they're sinners too.
Then you'll slaughter 'em, right?

Love the sinner, hate the sin?
Ridiculous, right? You'll ******
them one day, in the name of faith.
******* and your righteousness.

Let me cry in peace, rather than pieces.
Dre Guthrie May 2015
Baby Mine,
         The voices lie.
                      Be yourself.
                                  You're my beautiful son.
I'm really feeling gross today. I miss talking to my mother without feeling weird about it.
Dre Guthrie May 2015
In the morning dew,
eyes of glimmering morning
whisper to the soul.
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