Not Poem by Randy McClave

Not every man will have a spouse
Not every man will own a house
A place to go and rest his feet
And to protect himself from the cold and heat
That type of dream not many will espouse.

Not every man will want a wife
Not every man will want to share a life
As what they have is theirs alone
And all they care about is what they’ve known
So their cord of relationship they cut with a knife.

Not every man will want to be a father
Not every man will want a son or a daughter
All they want is their freedom and the world
They don’t want themselves, as a boy or a girl
And family and obligation is nothing but a bother.

Not every man will share their name
Not every man will share their pain
Many just care for their wants and needs
And the glory of manhood for which it feeds
But the glory of all, is that all man is not the same.