Black Poetry : Not Just a pair of pants

[AACOOLDRE]

PAIR OF PANTS
BY
KEE KEE

My man is more than a just a pair of pants

Walking around
Undignified, doing nothing, scratching himself to mark his manhood

Pockets burdened with the woes of the ghetto

Pants sagging from too few opportunities wearing him down

Walking into a blighted path that has no meaning

Just to make five dollars and 15 cents
Which the government taxes greedily

My man is the man that u women wish
Your black man could be

My man is the man
Not because of what’s in his pants
But because the way he wears his pants

Dignified because the way he holds his head high
When society tells him he can’t be the man he was born to be
But just a pair of pants

Intelligent enough to know his place in the human race
To leave a crease in the face of defeat

Not just sitting on the street
Scratching, undignified, doing nothing

No that’s not my man that u see
Just the image of the man they want him to be

Rugged. Rundown, hole in the knee
No starch, no dry cleaning fee

Wrong brother you looking for
Stereotyped the wrong Negro.

Nothing’s gained
Nothing’s free

He just can’t be who you want him to be


See my man is the man
Not just a pair of pants.

Thanks Kee-AA

 

[$$RICH$$]

very well pose flow here .......nice

 

[angelicsage]

"He just can’t be who you want him to be"
this was a nice flow...

 

[PoeticShae]

I like the lingo you have in this piece...well done


Shaela

 

[renee31127]

I'm feelin this, and it sounds like you have a real good man.