A boy is a loaded gun Deadly and true Heavy with the weight of himself His tiny moving parts Smelling like oil and death and blood Trigger finger quick as the flash of his smile The white of his teeth reflected In the whites of her eyes A girl is an open wound Scar riddled and lame From all the bullets she has been grazed by Surely one, one day will **** her Or the lead in her body All poisonous trace of him Will seep into her bloodstream Find her heart, aquiver in fear Rabbit under the barrel Experienced hunter, this one His hands do not shake His lips do not twitch His eyes cold and hard as the weapon The world is a red battlefield Silence, but for his steady breath Her tearful pleas Bang The boy reloads.