Manhood

They tell us from birth To be strong and responsible To be men To be productive So we bury our feelings under our shields We are renamed ‘cold or jerk‘ when we show our human weakness They said our hearts are stones upon which only moss of bitterness are sown. So all the fighting, all the harming, are deeds intrinsic of us. They said that Adam’s curse of tailing the soil was solely for us So we grew up acting like machines, but deep within a lot of us are broken by these conventions