Black Poetry : Man-Child: Absolution

mensahpoetic

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belly of the sun
Occupation
****, why you gotta be all up in my sh*t?
thanks to GA_SunShyne for inspiring this piece...

the boys of our world
...future leaders &
decision makers, the
next in line to play
stock exchange games and
write wedding vows on loose leaf paper
instead of carving them in stone.
...glass responsibility,
mistakes made & things shatter
to shambles while
mama
and her women-singers
hum aretha franklin basslines
...sweeping up the fractured lives
their little boys leave behind
while
running towards the sunset,
chasing the intangible madness that
boils their blood.

Little boys
...penis hard & carefree...
frolic in yards & ignore the tresspassing signs
...running with afrika to their backs &
their sisters underneath their feet
...sisterhood's skeletons pile mile high in the
wake of manhood's
disconnected concern for him
and him only.
The world's his oyster but
his wife will clean it for him
before he hoards the riches his
shell grants him
...and the woman of his mind
can taste the salty hardness of his
selfishness, yet she
continues with warm smiles
...because the love of a woman
is the great absolution that washes a man's
accountability away.

...our mothers...
make women out of girls &
challenge them to be all
...child-bearer...
...child-teacher...
...cook, lover & man's best friend...
but are our sons failed?
they
...we...
can remain emotionless and
devoid of ambition & still
have spoils at our grasp.
It saddens me to think that
we boys look to women for
manly ways cuz our fathers
found other demons & dreams to chase
...and worse,
the father that stays can choose to be worthless
knowing...
mama-wife will dip into her love and
rub his ego until the
sting of emasculation ejaculates &
everything will be made okay again.

And there are men who
need that ego stroke & will
turn violent,
like boys who can't have their way,
and beat on their sister-lovers,
rape them out of spite cuz
their women's growth reflects their
stunted progression
...and still,
the bloodied beauty of his world...
will love him until he is sorry
& will never do it again
...and becomes absolved from
his actions once again

...just like a man-child...

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Alyce, GQ & Sherri...

thank you for checking out my piece & showing me a little bit of love.

thanks to GA_SunShyne for hipping me to some insight on how boys are raised differently than girls in this society & how it creates gender-specific roles....

anyway, peace y'all...:)
 
mensi.


when you presented me with the question...
"do men have it easier than women?" i had
no idea that my answer would manifest itself
through you... in such a spectacular form.

i am pleasant-ly surprised.

you are wonderful-ly gifted & just plain ole
deep like dat... so... i should have known that
you would come wit dha real (so to speak) :D...

thank you for paying attention & for listening
with your heart&mind...

itsallLove, chile. (endless-ly)

elayne.
 

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