It is said that it isn’t easy to be a man. I personally don’t know what that means. Maybe it means you have to act like you are a man in any situation. It makes no sense.
Faddal Ibrahim puts into perspective the struggles of a man right when he wakes from sleep. And from sleep to sleep, how consistent these struggles are until the man dies. In the spoken word, Faddal talks about how it is deemed unmanly for a man to cry.
Self-note: I mean, not only is it tosh to think that way, it is demeaning of women. It relegates women as being weak and elevates men as being tough. Really not cool.
Back to the poem, Faddal enlightens us on how men feel emotional and even cry when they are filled with an ocean of tears. He talks about how, for the prejudice, men are met with when they voice out on their weaknesses, many a man have allowed their sorrows to subdue them in silence. And after enduring all the name-calling, embarrassment, and dying, the very people who pointed fingers at them, tend to sympathize with them.
In a nutshell, Faddal wants us to normalize men crying. It’s no weakness.
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