A Man Does Weep
Great are the pains in life,
a job, friends, kids and wife…
Needing to be alone to think,
constant drip of the kitchen sink.
Sorrows, struggles, fear and pain,
things a man can’t show, no gain…
If the truth be told man or not,
standing alone, not a robot.
A man can weep ‘till his insides ache,
watch his children leave his heart does break.
A man does shed tears no lie!
I did, I watched my mother die…
A man does weep when sorrow comes,
the pain so great it surely numbs.
I wept so hard my body shook,
gasping to breathe my breath it took…
A mother lost, a father too;
a child has gone so far away.
A life of hope that disappears,
it’s hard to see another day…
I still get up after I fall,
each time but not for myself…
Who am I living for?
I sometimes wonder why not myself…
And again I seek to be alone to weep…
Copyright © Pernell Rodocker | Year Posted 2014
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