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Men Are Only Good
When They Die
From War
Men have hands
But cannot touch
Arms
But cannot hold
Hearts
But cannot feel
For this
They are bad
Men are only good
When they die
From War
For this reason
No boy will ever strive to be a passionate man
Rather
Boys
Play war
By: Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid
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Poetry.com really likes this poem.? Out of all the poems I have submitted to them, they keep sending me emails about this one.? Yep, they’re going to put it in a special book and this poem will have a page all to its own and I can buy a copy if I like, also I have been invited to join a special club, membership dues are about 300 dollars.? I was invited to read my poem, but I wouldn’t be refunded the air fair or hotel fees.? I got some honorable mention or something but I have to pay for the plaque.
So I guess they liked it.
All my life I have been taught how men are bad and I mostly believed it until I woke up one day.? Though I have woke up, still, I find most of society is sleeping.? Yes, it is commonly believed that men are bad, unless of course there is a war and you fight and die for your country.? Then you get to be a hero and that is the only way you get to be a good person in the eyes of society if you’re a man.? But then again, if there were no men in this world, there would be no wars, so it is believed. You can tell me I’m wrong, but I’ll tell you what, you need to wake up, stop your dreaming and see the real world for what it really is.
For what it is worth, men are not bad, men are just misunderstood.
This is not a man’s world. I didn’t make this world, like you, I too was born into it and like you I have to deal with the card I was dealt. It would do me no good to blame it on women.