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To Live
December 30, 2014
Amid the chaos.
Through the perpetual ring of sneakers on a scuffed floor.
Within the uniformity.
A media-driven realm of uncertainty senselessly called life.
Yet, nobody is living.
Hiding behind a facade of testosterone and passivity.
Sensitivity a seemingly unknown concept to the sentiment of a man.
The dictation of our ideals,
consistently augmented by a society which I don’t discern.
Life oppressed to a dull hum.
Living is to understand who I am.
© Shanon G., Elgin, SC
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This piece is about the inequality of social expectations on teenage guys. It is common for one to hear about how society shepes girls, but the same thing does happen to guys and this poem illustarates the struggles that some endure.