Poetry If a man was free...

UnhappyUnion

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If a man was free,
what would he think?

He might consider what to wear,
what his kids might look like,
or if his sweetheart will give him a second date...

But he remembers his obligation,
women and children first they say,
but he wants to live,
wants a future.

So the man survived,
and he was a demon for it.

If a man was free,
what would he think?

He might chase his own happiness,
be tough they say,
make money they say.

The world is yours tough, free man
your failures are nothing
but
your own...

If a man was free,
how would he live?

He is the first to die,
so women can live,
50 thousand dead by the enemy
50 thousand dead by suicide
50 thousand dead by addiction
50 thousand dead by loneliness...

Your sperm is just as good as any,
one man for them all,
go on hero,
die for me.

If a man was free,
what would he think?

The prisons for the men we failed,
systems of abuse,
day in, day out, controlled by whims of anger,
survival,
their rape is but a statistic at best,
a joke at worst,
the rape of a woman...
tragedy.

If a man could speak,
he couldn't,
because he was spoken over,
by men and women alike.

Stok Stok

one sex, one race, one person, does not have a monopoly on oppression.
 
Forgive me for muddying up the comments of your clean poetry. You can delete this after I say it. I am a man, who wrote that poem in sympathy for the female experience. I thought it would be quite ironic if you were a woman doing the same? I was only curious. I love your response. Can I copy and paste it into my original thread?
 
Forgive me for muddying up the comments of your clean poetry. You can delete this after I say it. I am a man, who wrote that poem in sympathy for the female experience. I thought it would be quite ironic if you were a woman doing the same? I was only curious. I love your response. Can I copy and paste it into my original thread?
I am a woman making a reply indeed. Sure, go ahead and copy paste it into the original thread. I felt obligated to reply because oppression is a universal thing that hits everyone in horrible, different ways.
 

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