Riddle XXXXVII

In the company of wolves,
Sheep dance as a well unto an ocean,
Bad of bad intoxicants have overlong...
Selfishly been masculinity inhaled,

What the mask of masculinity means to me..

1. Controlling your wife... Driving her mental health kaleidoscope spectrums of crazy

2. Using scripture to demand your children respect everything about you (yet you can't remember a single accomplishment of caring action or triumph of their heart

3. Denouncing your children, should they be anything other than poker straight

4. Claiming in front of your family; You can look, no gawk... At anyone... Provided you don't seek to touch

5. Biblically mansplaining any of your words or actions away which hurt others

6. Measuring the worth of your genealogy by their submissiveness to your pathetically unorthodox misused context of the psalms

7. Teaching your sons to treat women as objects, using but the most minute pleasantries to appreciate, if at all. Opening doors with a 'lady's first' moment of possible intimate realization. Paying bills because 'the man' must... 'man up,' and pretend that scripture like society could... No should, never be equal.

8. There is no eight as we cannot yet condemn the very nature of the seven.

7. in reverse: Learning from the mistakes of those who taught you nothing 

6. in reverse: Learning from your mistakes! Attempt to never make them again.

5. in reverse: Learn from your elders who seek equality, whose caring is reflected universally

4. in reverse: Learn to make amends with every second of who we/I am... For the mirror reflected man

3. in reverse: Remembering to achieve all that's been learned, without having to each moment reflect

2. in reverse: Remember... Seek only to admire everyone with honesty, integrity and love...

1. in reverse: Remember to acknowledge what cannot be changed... History! And change: you!

What Masculinity Means to Me...

Next to... Nothing!