Being a man

Being a man
Being called a "man "

Means live no room for tear 
We are constantly told that 
A man is not supposed to shade tears
 
Even if the pain cracks the bones and the 
Air becomes hard to breath a man is not supposed to cry even if words are thrown on you crashing down on you .

Poetry allows a man to speak for three(3) 
Minutes without being interrupted 
The only time he is allowed to express he's emotions.

They are many rooms in he's house. 
But the room of thought ?? .
thought left to roat  in there an army of words ready to fire ?? being called a man. we have learnt how to watch the night fed into darkness. We have learnt to build walls that never fall.

They are many rooms in a man  house 
The only one they do not add is for mistakes. For every mistakes is the down fall of every man  so they is no time to show emotions.

 We have learnt to be brain dead our brain can only comprehend sex from the opposite sex .
Being a man Means being emotionally numb but yet drowning in he's emotions 

Cause emotions only means you are week 
So in a poem a man expresses emotions 
Drowning with a hand raised high all we get is a high 5? five ,you must learn to pocket your cause emotions only make you week . 

What if giving up is poetic justice 
What if pain is the only escape root and the only door is through this rope.
We have learnt  to Barry our hurt in soils of regrets.

See we have learnt to morn the living before they're death .reality burns our skin 
Now blind with ashes of our  burnt dreams
We have learnt to twist fiction as facts they will tell you that they is peace in being emotionally numb.

Copyright © Owen Hamalala | Year Posted 2025

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