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Steven Muir Jun 2015
Hell is relative.

It's a disambiguation of the horrors and
disintegration of the self.
A destruction of the knowledge and
delineation of the time.

"I will see you in hell",
has always struck me as a funny sentiment.
No two hells shall be the same.
Steven Muir Jun 2015
My voice
Was the highest soprano in the choir
And I was well past puberty.
My chest may never be
As flat as yours,
My shoulders will always be
Slimmer and daintier,
My waist tucks in and allows for
Hips,
Hips that make me cringe with every ******* breath
Some days.

I will never have
That bulge between my legs
That you so wrongly call manhood.

I lack the things you tell me
Make someone a boy,
And sometimes I even lack the guts
To disagree with you;
But **** if that makes it alright to throw me in gutters,
Beat me up behind smokey dive bars,
Yell at me on the city bus,
Take away my ******* humanity.

Because I am a boy.
I am a ******* human.
Steven Muir May 2015
I.
Bonfires
and smokey wine,
nothing more than laughter.

II.
Catching burning hot coals is
easy enough when you trust
the person throwing them.

III.
I hate fast cars
I hate waking up and learning
someone has died.
Steven Muir May 2015
I.
"When I come home I can
hug you through your panic things,
or your anger things."

II.
And no one's ever said that
before. I'm a *******
disaster, disgusting, drinking problems to come.

III.
You're telling me I'll have
someone to hang onto,
someone to cry into,
someone who tells me we'll get through things together.

IV.
Are you sure this isn't
a ******* joke?
But I trust you,
because how can you not trust someone
who's always been so **** good.
Steven Muir May 2015
I.
It's a click and a
whir of my lens,
and I was
laughing.

II.
Softer laughter then what I forced out
when I was next to her.
Easier,
and I was able to breathe.
Steven Muir Apr 2015
I.
It's harder to love
the people you're supposed to
then it ought to be.

II.
It's easier to love
those you shouldn't
then would seem right.
Steven Muir Apr 2015
I.
The world is
a hundred times kinder
then I would have thought
before.

II.
There's so many good people,
people she told me
didn't exist.

III.
Now she's the
odd ******* one out.
Don't hurt people
to save yourself.
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