The Gift Of Choosing To Be Male

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2019-05-10 02:19 PM

( reposted in this Brave New World of Toxic Masculinity )

What is it to be male
that with our failures in life
we redefine success?
Have you ever asked?
I know that you have wondered.

Born without needs
for directions, instructions,
coupled with unrepentant
yearnings to exceed in our excess,
puzzled by fear and ignorance
of those who stumble
over what it takes to please a man,
we do sense such
understandings are for time
left to be wasted
by others,
those who make up the distaff pole
of this bipolar lot.

We are not encumbered
by sense or sensibility,
and as such are not ashamed to be free
to believe and then discount,
by choice,
what is right before our eyes;

I swear to you,
in the tired cracking voice I've earned,
on all that I believe is holy in this life,
that being male can be
simply the greatest state of being free.

Even if locked down
and broken,
with yang of rage so far from reach
its name can not be spoken,
a man can shut his mind away
inside himself and facing the abyss
run
toward all that terrorized his every waking thought
corrosively consuming the very fibers of his soul;

yes, run,
with joyful madness gleaming in his eyes,
even if the only choice remaining
is the leap
and the ecstatic glory of the fall.

©2003, 2019 by icebox

Namyh
Senior Member

since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

1 posted 2019-05-11 12:04 PM

Icebox - Kinda makes me proud to inherit 7 million years of evolution that made me a thinking being.who can create his own destiny today. Hallelujah for that! I liked your work. Namyh

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2019-05-11 05:38 AM

A timely piece indeed, Mr. Ice.

Fabiani
Member

since 2006-05-12

Posts 123
Mesa, Az

3 posted 2019-08-08 01:04 AM

We walked through this world

It's time to rethink every fact that is imaginable
Survival instinct dwells in a past that is inhabitable
I happen to pull fast ones over the slow p

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2020-01-25 07:02 PM

Most excellent, Charly!

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

5 posted 2020-01-27 06:23 PM

I hadn't seen this before Charley, and I'm glad that I came searching to read it today.

Thank you for the rare glimpse, Sir.

"In yearning for nothing, you will be free to enjoy what you do, free to see the patterns, free to hear the music in all things."
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

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