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[aid] => mick
[title] => Can You Be a Man?
[time] => 2013-02-24 14:27:46
[hometext] => I hope it's not too long, and definitely hope it's not a waste of your time. Thanks for reading.
[bodytext] => I've seen you. Naked and new. Like a baby bird freshly due In a starless night Left you in a belligerent fright because you knew that birds were meant to fly. But didn't know how to get to the sky. Not knowing why. But baby, you needed help. Learned to be a man from street gang entrepreneurs with saboteur mentalities. Had no family to make you feel home. But, you didn't know about the catacomb waiting for us. This was something to never discuss. But listen, they had given us nothing to lose and everything to prove. You want to be a man? Don't follow their plan. Liquor. Guns. Drugs. They're just sweeping us under their rugs. Look. I know we are lovers from two different trees but, I can't let you be plagued with this disease. We love you. If not me, or your race, do this for her. She may not know who you are, but she'll know who you were. I'm not saying you will die. But baby, we were meant for the sky and you may not make it but, it's worth a try. She can't live like this! I refuse! Our daughter is not just another pawn for them to use! Long ago, they planned our destinies banking on our pedigrees to have already taken care of the "little black problem". No, they didn't think that we would blossom. So baby, even if they didn't set our nests high enough for us to stay in the sky long enough, you have to fly. We have to defy their theory and clear this dreary future and remember this bleary past. Create something that's bound to last because we were always meant to fly. Tame that wild blue yonder so our kids will never have to ask why. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 100 [topic] => 55 [informant] => Tarheel_treat [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => dedicatedpoems )
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