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Steven Muir Aug 2015
We are growing up wrong --
Let me rephrase,
There is nothing wrong with the way in which we are growing up.
We are wrong.

We are becoming whispered secrets behind closed doors --
the information with which to bind safely, advice on a name --
Quickly passed off goods as though it were illegal to
Own a binder, a packer, a mens tie.

We are becoming men,
And yet we were never boys, not really.
Not in the way we would have liked to be.

We will be fighting the rest of our lives,
Lying, probably. Lying, when it doesn't feel like lying --
"When I was a, well, a boy scout.." But you weren't.
You were a girl scout.

We are covering our tracks to hide the identity we've worked so hard to obtain --
No one but each other will ever be proud of us.
Not for this.
Not for the hardest fight of our lives.
Steven Muir Aug 2015
Stop when red lights flash.

Stop lights;
when red flash.

Stop lights.
Stop lights.
Warning lights.

You should have ******* listened.
Steven Muir Jul 2015
I.
"Y'know,
we make a good team.
That's one of the reasons I think we'd be
good
living together."

II.
Romance? Never.
Steven Muir Jul 2015
I.
It's funny how
commitment looks on
the face of someone who's never
been committed to before.

II.
As if commitment to another human was merely
the promise that you would not
end your own life.
Steven Muir Jul 2015
I.
We formed a non-suicide pact
in jesting voices,
vowed to save ourselves
as soon as we'd been superheros and saved
the world.

II.
We meant every ******* word.
Steven Muir Jul 2015
I.
I would like to die.

II.
Not forever.

III.
Just for a year.
Steven Muir Jul 2015
I.
We were born under the same
burning moon,
but she is the beautiful maniac,
and I am nothing but
a gentle capricorn.
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