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TEACH THE BOY TO CRY (OUTRO)
- //Normal talking//
- People think the deconstruction of a man is some loud violent occurrence,
- This outpour of bitterness towards the world,
- And in reality the deconstruction of a man is a silent film....
- A common surgical procedure that the world didn't know it was trained to do,
- The breaking point of a boy is the world's quietest natural disaster,
- As a man, there is no such thing as being stuck between a rock and a hard place
- You either use the stones at rock bottom to build a way out,
- Or you get buried by them....
- Ain't nobody coming to save you,
- The entire world is trying to construct you into it's perfect little image,
- And the people around you are the ones who fuel the process of your manufactured masculinity,
- Some of us are going to make it through assembly,
- But we need to watch out for our defective counterparts,
- Because the whole world is going to use their flaws to define all of us,
- Luckily most effective product is aware of it's own shortcomings and tends to destroy itself given enough time alone with it's imperfections,
- This abridged explanation of the process is how you become a man, or a monster
- Everybody knows what a monster does,
- Everybody judges the monster, nobody questions it's creator,
- Some of us are manufactured to make light of our peril, with jokes if you will,
- Male comedians are magicians in this way,
- How they take their pain and airbrush it into something laughable...
- Hee Hee, haha
- Joke about a failed suicide,
- The crowd laughs, the curtains close,
- The comedian drinks all the way home....
- A man's tears are just funny that way,
- How they have to be translated to be accepted,
- How they have to be transcribed into an art form to be worthy of observation,
- How you have to, How you have to BLEED artistically to become a worthy topic of conversation,
- Funny, how we can joke about a man's misery
- But nobody taught the boy to cry,
- But they taught him how to fight,
- Nobody tucked him in at night, so he doesn't sleep at night,
- Nobody offers protection to the protectors,
- Nobody provides the providers with the provisions,
- Nobody looks after the overseer,
- Nobody has ever tried to guide the man who steers,
- Everybody judges the weak men,
- Nobody checks on the strong ones,
- Only other men know how subtle a difference before the transition,
- Nobody taught the boy to cry, so he would do it at all the wrong times,
- In the barber chair, getting casket sharp remembering the funeral of a failed relationship,
- In the grocery aisle, breaking down because he's weighed down by the tears collecting in his baggage at a soccer game,
- Remembering what it was like to be a boy running towards a goal,
- Most men will only experience unconditional love from their mothers,
- And some of us don't even get that...
- Most of us have never even felt appreciation,
- Or respect, without conditions or hidden intentions,
- We don't know what it sounds like to hear,
- "I see you, and i'm proud of you, i'm glad you're here you really make a difference."
- Yet the expectation is to constantly be displaying the strength and love that the world
- Is hesitant in conveying we're expected to have a thick skin but get judged if it turns to a hard shell,
- The first step in being a man, is ignoring the hunger,
- Because yes, boy you gonna be starving,
- Starved of attention, starved of affirmation,
- Starved of love, starved of being told that you are enough...
- Step two, in being a man is comfortability with replaceability,
- You are only as good as you are useful,
- You are only as valuable as you are needed by others,
- Should there ever come a day boy, where you fail to provide everybody with a smiling face,
- Then do not be surprised when they say "All men do is take up space"
- And you are swiftly replaced.
- Step three, in being a man, is overcoming your fear of the fire, because almost everything you will ever try to build,
- Will go up in flames, relationships, careers, hobbies, and yes, you are always to blame,
- Step four in being a man, is understanding by the time you finally get all the right answers,
- These questions will have already changed,
- You might achieve the strength of herculean fiction, trying to balance the weight of all these contradictions,
- "Be a man" they say, definition: unknown,
- Description: keep changing
- We men, so empty, so irritable, so this so that,
- We get told what we are so much we've accepted,
- That who we are, ain't even up to us,
- The blame is always on us, regardless.
- One guilty man's actions requires an innocent man's explanation,
- Otherwise you're all guilty by gender association,
- There are four times as many male suicidal ideation because it's been hammered in our head that wer're falling short of our societal expectations...
- Imagine being in a world of hurt for a hundred different reasons during a nationwide emasculation season,
- There is a unique brand of sadness that follows being hated, without reason,
- It ain't no secret, while over 30 percent of us have attempted to stop breathing,
- Nobody even mentions the men who have succeeded,
- As the saying goes "Every failure is one step closer to a successful attempt"
- There is no such thing as an attempted suicide, a man's soul dies long before his body has a chance to realize,
- A man with an old soul is just a boy who contemplated going ghost,
- For every women that suffers the same fate, four men will follow her to the grave...
- And I try to hide the stats from the poet, because he might romanticize them,
- He might mistake this tragedy for a love story,
- He might write a poem in place for the suicide notes that were never left behind,
- Because nobody taught him otherwise...
- So who's going to teach these boys to cry? While their still alive,
- A man with nothing, to lose will view everything as something to take,
- A child that isn't embraced by the village, will burn the village down.
- And he will stare, as everything that didn't love him back,
- Contorts, and cracks.
- He will ease his way into the fire, until he
- Finally
- Feels
- Some warmth.........
- //Outro to the poem//
- Message to anyone who needs this,
- You are mighty, you are a warrior,
- You are powerful, you are strong,
- You are loved.
- Don't let anyone take that from you,
- Don't let people take you're feelings, and crush them.
- Don't bottle up you're emotions and take them out on someone else,
- Don't respond with violence unless needed,
- Life can be hard, but
- You are capable.
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