U R Not Your Gun
You are: The sound of your mother's
voice calling your name and your father's
chance for a better life--not his,
but yours, because it's too late for him,
but not for you...not yet, unless you forget
U R Not Your Gun.
You are your greatest fantasy and
someone's best friend and another's
first love. You are shelter
from the storm.
You are memory and risk and reward.
You are tougher than your
disappointments, you are kinder
than you imagine, you are everything
that child you once were
wanted to be and more. But
U R Not Your Gun--
not grey and cold and lifeless.
Not unforgiving like that. Not hollow or predictable. Not dangerous.
U R Not Your Gun.
You are someone I can love.
Evelyn Augusto for GUNS DON'T SAVE PEOPLE POETS DO. Oct. 4th, 2019
Copyright © Evelyn Augusto | Year Posted 2018
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