to the men out there.

so i need to apologize. i didnt get to finish my 30/30 blog because of finals! wackness. but i loved every day of it.
since then...im now a senior. crazy. i went to atlanta to work at a homeless cafe which changed my life. and i got robbed in the process..which is a story [or a poem] for another day.
now im back home. its summer. and.....the best is yet to come. let's go!

to the men out there.


to the men out there
especially you in particular
i cant let you walk away from
an unfortunate situation thinking that
all women are the same

and i cant let a black superman turn into
an evil villain, a bad guy
your cape collecting dust in the corner because
your heart was broken by
a careless woman
miss kryptonite

because we XYs
we were all made equal but different
leaving you in
the cold with one hand full of twelve roses
and the other empty with
no palm to hold
is something that i know that i would never do
to you

and if i ever met a man who took the time
to take me out every weekend
to call me up every night
to send me gifts just because he can
to and loved me for who i am
the way you did
for her
i swear that i would never
let his hand go he'd be mine forever
and you'dve put a ring on it
a long time ago because you see

i know alot of other women just like me
yearning for men like you to appear
but its an oasis out here and we're tired
of these god damn mirages so we'd rather be parched
choking on dust and sand
than crawl desperately to the next fleeting image
the next man who isn't worth shit
while you sit in your room throwing
those flowers for her in a trashcan
taking
the pictures of yall of the wall
putting them in a drawer
sobbing all alone
because the woman you loved let you go
and you can't figure out where you went wrong

let me tell you that not every woman will
appreciate your grandeur and affection
some women want to be thrown around and
roughed up before they know that love is real and
some woman will take your kindness and diamond karats
with smiles on their faces and run off in the sunset
tugging your heart on a string behind them and
some women may care about you but can't find
a way to tell you so and they may fade away
too

but please
don't let this discourage you
and don't let this encourage you
to become one of those men who treats
every girl he sees like a ho who thinks
of women as sperm dumpsters and not queens
who fucks them
who leaves them
who retreats them for the next usual suspect
who couldn't spell out the word 'love'
to save his life

i promise you that everything will be alright
despite that lately your day and night
have been turned upright have
faith
and believe that when you find the
woman of your dreams
that love will be ordained and she'll stick
around
no matter if its sunny or it rains and she'd
rather die than let go of your hand and
she'll tell everyone that you are HER man
then you'll really understand that

a good woman
is hard to find
a good man
even harder
and we're all tired
of playing these games of
hide and seek
lost and found
there are women who give
anything
to have you around so if
nothing else
this poem will achieve
dust off your cap, sweetheart,
you will save some woman's day
you just have to
believe