you were born a human person
naive to the world
ignorant of just exactly
where you had been hurled
eyes open to your parents
eyes open to your peers
taught difference between boys and girls
with so many jeers
be a big boy
showing strength and ability
abandon care
and with it fragility
don't act like a girl
you'll be called a slur
what could be worse
than an effete poseur
the whispers and the yelling
the pressures that you face
abide or be derided
in here there is no grace
the ways and means your dad was taught
is what he passed to you
the gaze and dreams that you have bought
is what you're teaching too
one is not born a man
for the men here are made
not here as we began
but how we have been played