Happy International Men's Day: The Bittersweet Journey of the Boy Child

The boy child is like a moving vehicle faster than a bugatti.

He learned to walk too fast.

Get over things like the future flash.

Nobody is teaching this boy positive masculinity, and he wears armor just to cover his insecurities.

You have been neglected for so long, and now to cry reminds you you're less of a man when crying is a part of growing too.

Someone tell this male that tears are welcome here.

The journey is only sweet when there is some ofe onugbu to accompany the fufu.

The bitter leaf is never complete without something to swallow, and the journey is bittersweet for the boy child to be a man when the man didn't finish learning how to first be a boy.

He's been walked out of the room when it comes to sexual abuse, and now the boy child can't say me too.

So he continues to walk too fast and chase the bag with the responsibility of the world on his shoulders.

This boy is a family man, striving for perfection that can only make a mad man run mad.

But someone tells him he's in control and that his presence commands attention.

An authority known for Kings because he's one

So please teach your sons and the ones unborn.

Teach boys carefully, patiently and, most importantly, lovingly.

 

By Ibquake

Happy International Men's Day.

Photo by Mathew Thomas