A man crush is an intense, non-sexual admiration that a man feels for another man. It typically revolves around deep respect for someone's style, talents, achievements, or personality, and is frequently celebrated on social media using the hashtag #MCM (Man Crush Monday).
this reality presents difficulties
many are the men I love,
their strengths of mastering reality,
their gentling touch for the living objects
they adore,
their genteel steely kindness that need no visible muscles,
that can carry so many on their back and fingertips
men resolute, part steel part tissue paper,
they radiate a contentment that eradicates
ugly features and faces, wicked deep scars of
disappointments inflicted upon them by cruelty,
and they carry on, shying from
no one
no responsibility
no task
no ugly truths
some who possess mastery over words,
some who speak so few so quietly,
oft mistook their quietude for nothing to say,
yet their demeanor says more than a lifetime
of poems
p.s. love women of valor, same but
different; solving for the Y of women
is a lifelong challenge, for they are each
a creature from a different planet, unique,
in that all speak
their own dialectical language,
that has no known dictionary
to you~man
only sharing the commonality of the roots of their scented words
May 27
May 27, 2026 at 5:38 AM UTC
A man crush is an intense, non-sexual admiration that a man feels for another man. It typically revolves around deep respect for someone's style, talents, achievements, or personality, and is frequently celebrated on social media using the hashtag #MCM (Man Crush Monday).
this reality presents difficulties
many are the men I love,
their strengths of mastering reality,
their gentling touch for the living objects
they adore,
their genteel steely kindness that need no visible muscles,
that can carry so many on their back and fingertips
men resolute, part steel part tissue paper,
they radiate a contentment that eradicates
ugly features and faces, wicked deep scars of
disappointments inflicted upon them by cruelty,
and they carry on, shying from
no one
no responsibility
no task
no ugly truths
some who possess mastery over words,
some who speak so few so quietly,
oft mistook their quietude for nothing to say,
yet their demeanor says more than a lifetime
of poems
p.s. love women of valor, same but
different; solving for the Y of women
is a lifelong challenge, for they are each
a creature from a different planet, unique,
in that all speak
their own dialectical language,
that has no known dictionary
to you~man
only sharing the commonality of the roots of their scented words
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