reviewing books
you’ve never read
dancing about architecture
how do some people
presume to judge
what they’ll never experience
people can intellectualise
but imagination can be fragile
against the roaring storm
which lives within
the burning libido
how culture speaks to a dominance
better attributed to the individual
than the group
but once you reach into
the rough, dark places
see the beast within you
and how action is the antidote
to chaos and how it chokes your
Battle cries
you see the tightly closed
lips, defeated expressions
yet still they walk
so I make eye contact
smile and nod
i see you
brother
we’re all marching somewhere
and by helping myself
i can help you
man or woman
if you recognise we are not
monsters anymore than
our capacity
to be so
but see the glory I exude
like winter sunlight
bright
hard
rapacious as your pupils
dilate before my glory
some sublime alchemy
of bad habits
being overcome
alongside positive
attitude
undiminished and honed
so a man
and all it entails
look to me
in the chaos
find me
stoic buddha
loving bear
ten feet tall
made of diamond
shining bright
like winter sunlight
bright
hard
#internationalmensday
MB Blissett 