What is being a man?
Is it being as strong as you can?
Having a nice body and a tan?

Most believe masculinity is
About being able to fight
And while manhood is a struggle
I do not think this is right
Some say your not a man
unless you drink
But the alcohol limits your
Ability to think
Few say to be a man
You must break a heart
But I ask how much like a man do
you feel When yours breaks apart

Being a man is about being tough
But not so much that your exterior is rough
But enough to allow you to handle pain
To weather the hard times when their is something to gain

Being a man is protecting
those who are weaker than you
To help them in the bad times
So that they can see it though
Because no matter
What you do
One day you are going to need
Somewhere their for you

I hate all this bullying that makes
The children think they are tough
Causing their victims to **** themselves
When they have finally had enough
Causing a kid to **** them self
doesn't mean you are strong
It only means that your a monster
And you have been one all along

Too many times I have seen cutmarks etched over the arms of my friends The cuts made me sick as they cried the mental agony of the ones that I cared about. And I remember the first time I saw them and how I thought how ugly they where, not because my friend had done this to themselves but that the cruel creatures of our society had driven them to that point. That the monsters drove them to take that knife to a place meant for loving hands.

But ironically the more I cared and worried about these marks. The less often they'd appear. And although scars remain from their past like the memory of their dark time they still had hope. Just because someone cared enough to protect them from their own mind.

So I ask you who is the bigger man? The monster causing a blade to lick
The skin of someone who has done
No wrong
Or
The friend who made the marks of
That monster
Disappear?