Chapter 8: boys don't cry

Darkness (A book full of poems)Words: 1344

Looking out this window, and not a silhouette in sight The roads are so quiet.   These emotions take me back

To a time when I once felt safe and dealt with life and strife.

They say “Boys don’t cry,” but when you’re surrounded

By all the fears they scream, and girls tend to use you as a toy

Brings you to tears until you find the right one.

They say “Boys don’t cry” so don’t just hide it away, and

Go numb. All you want in life is for them to see you’re not dumb.

“Boys don’t cry.” Yeah, okay, sure, because we don’t feel things?

Well, at least that's how they think. Blasting music into my headphones just so I don’t hear the rumors they say. They think it doesn’t hurt

To be drugged into the dirt, but hey “boys don’t cry”

All this pressure to be perfect; all this pressure to keep your

Feelings hidden you just smile and say “I’m fine.” though

You feel like you are drowning.

The moment comes between boyhood and manhood

The world is screaming at you to grow up.

You feel alo, me like no one will care, and if they do,o it’s rare.

All this pressure to have the “the perfect size.”

Or you will never find the right one, but they are

Yelling at you to have sex, and grow the population so they can corrupt the next generation

Of this nation.

Yet boys don’t cry

Oh, how that’s such a lie.