RANSVESTIA

Is all of what we say and do decided By a self that's wholly free Or by unknown determinants

With which we unconsciously agree?

I cannot give these answers Nor can the wise may say, For all I know with certainty Is what I am today.

Many years have gone to history

Many testings I have passed

Many questions have been answered

Though many more the questions asked.

Through lots of pain and turmoil I've done as life required I've met the challenges of manhood I reached the goals that I desired.

I've lived the role expected

And done as I ought to do

As an athlete and scholar

Husband twice, and father too.

But this life for all its pleasures

Was somehow not complete

For always deep within me

Another heart there seemed to beat.

A man's life has limitations

Of which he's often not aware

He's so busy living "manhood" That he doesn't seem to care.

Men can express a lot of things But much he must repress

While women have more freedom Their feelings to express.

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