Cause you’re just a man
Cause you’re just a man Cause you’re just a man and that’s what you do….. I think as I am sitting across a man in a café watching his gaze deep into my soul, as if he can feel my artery and my veins, while his wife is calling on him to feed his beautiful baby. Being a young girl in a patriarchal world is an open invitation for eyes, eyes that you would never want, eyes that are so lustful that you get unholy by just looking at them. In the olden days, the punishment for adultery was stoning to death. In the modern world, the punishment for rape is, well….justice delayed is justice denied. Sometimes I sip my lime soda and think, to be a man, you have to be so cunning, shallow, and diabolical. For men, life is a chase and they love running behind it, they love to be at the forefront of the race and push the weaker section to grow ahead. As a woman, you are conditioned to adjust, tone down, and be quiet but as a man having a wife is like winning a trophy, and well sure ...
