My Two Sides Of Black

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 16:21 -- Shaney

Location

Youngstown, Ohio
United States

Black Man.


Straight.


Love Sports, particuraly football and basketball.


I love Women. I'm a butt man myself, personally.


I am a Man of God. Christian. I follow by the Lord's book.


I am tough. I cry for nothing. Expect maybe the death of my mother.


I am strong, i workout almost everyday, building muscle proving my strength.


I'm smoke that weed too, ain't nothing like getting high.


If you call me a punk i'll call you a nigga.


I'm not against putting a cap in you either.


I sag my pants. I put up with no bull.


You like my swag? Bet it's better than yours


I protect my own. I know where i came from i don't stray away.


Black Man.


Gay? I am.


Flamboyant? No. Straight Acting? No.


Normal Acting?....Well i guess as "normal" acting any gay man could be


I like sex? yes very much so. I like it with Men. Black men? No.


My prefernce is white men. Oh and i suppose because i'm BLACK, i'm suppose to be attracted to other BLACK men right?


"Stay in your own race my mother tells me" "Be in your own kind"


Walk the streets of my neighborhood, where weed and poverty remains dominate, and the DL men of the city where i live THINK, i'm suppose to give it up to them because i have the same skin color as them?


My heart is interracial. I go against my own "kind" I believe that making art and love and perfect melodies can only be accomplished by the unions of black and white keys


No i do not wear heels and paint my fingernails, or talk like a girl, I am a MAN. I just happen to be a man who loves kissing another MAN.


Holding the hand of a MAN.


Cuddling with a MAN.


Walking down the asile on my wedding day to a MAN.


I will not hide to protect the facade of what you think a BLACK MAN should be


Because frankly I'm exactly what a BLACK MAN should be.

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