Poem
title: What I learned about a man
What
I learned about a man, I learned from my father
Can't trust
a man to tell the truth
Lies they
throw farther
Mentally
beating you down
Words hurt
worse than murder
Spiritual
death, worse
than the
physical
Names hurt ya
Destroys
your mental
Sticks and
stones, break bones
and so does
his fists
Childhood
nightmares I will never miss
Wishing my
memories into the abyss
What I
learned about a man ,I learned from my father
How he used
and mistreated my mother
Told her
with deceit that he loved her
after fighting was over
Chaos,
identities lost
How the
household was cold
Love was
scarce and old
as the
smiles we never wore
fake
Kept
inquiring minds away
He raised
the standards high, as we tried to meet them
It was
impossible, made us weary, tired
As he
continually raised the bar of perfection a lil higher
an obstacle
never conquered, requirement never met
our imminent
defeat and regret
His anger
rarely ceased
I learned women
are unworthy
A man can leave
a woman thirsty and hungry
for attention
Compliments
never given
Being a
woman is worthless living
Men superior
Men are to
be feared
I learned a
father can make his children feel inadequate
I used to
always wish for magic
Wishing upon
stars
to take my
pain far
I learned
growing up the pain
nothing
changes
it stays the
same
Mental survival
taken in vain
I picked men
for relationships who acted the same
I work diligently
to
Raise my
sons to be better men
Going
against the grain of fabric given
Hoping
they'd treat better their women
For me I
pray that I will make better choices in men
Have true,
love, strength, and positive attention
Hoping for
the one
So that
these haunting dirty, father secrets, don’t delayed a good man and one day he will come
Dysfunctional
cycle would be broken, over, and done
