- The worst of humanity has
habitation in the male of the species,
through displays of strength
and unrelenting control
that are the poisoned fangs
of masculinity.
2. Oppression, repression,
abuse, conflict,
war, rape and hate
fill the poison sack
of machismo.
3. The innocent
and the vulnerable
are the special subjects
of the toxic male psyche
that targets them
right in the heart,
straight through
the soul.
4. Desire to dominate,
ravage and profit
have driven
the male
memories of history
and are part of the
venom of this
treacherous pack animal.
5. The male of the species
releases the destructive bane
of ignorance and exploitation
into the delicate eco-system
that diminishes our planet
and threatens
all creatures,
all that are connected
so intimately to us.
6. Women are bonded
and subsumed
under the category
of ‘male’
with its dominating
logic of the pack,
so that,
despite the struggle to
be fully free,
their equal authentic being
is but an ideal
is some parallel universe.
7. I am trapped in
the embodied expectations
of maleness,
constrained by
all the forms
and habits
that have to be shown
to fit the pack.
I hate being male,
so I am in search
of being a person,
of being
fully human,
of being a spirit
whose centre
is compassion.
23/7/2016
