In A Mans World

This is a poem I wrote after having a long conversation with my Mum... I believe we all got the greatest Mums in the world who have forgone a whole lot just to make us happy... My Mum is no exception .. She's been to hell and back just to make me smile.. Even though we had our bad times, we still lived like Mum and Son..

I am a young man now and wish she'd be 25 years younger than me,the fear of her growing old is now killing me cos she means the world to me and I keep saying this,  she wouldn't be traded even for Miss World.. Unfortunately for her, she was a single mother, Yes, she went through a whole lot to bring myself and my 2 kid siblings up.. She's hustled and has never stopped hustling..

I decided to put myself in her shoes when the inspiration came for me to write this poem, but I also realized there are other women who go through a whole lot in world also also known A Mans World and me doing just my mothers bit wouldn't be fair so I had to bring them on board.

 In this poems you'd find that Young Lady in Heels, The Corporate Lady, My Mother Who Sells in the Market and the University Girl who need to warm the bed of lecturers just to make her grades ....

I owe My Mum a Range Rover and to pave way for that, i had to write this piece... I just hope the message in here would be sent across ...

IN A MANS WORLD 

They say its a mans world 

Even when the women keep dominating with numbers 

And they still keep saying its a mans world 

Even when the men keep running away from their responsibilities 

They would never stop saying its a mans world 

Even when 5 out of ten men are sperm donors, nothing near fathers  

For a day, I choose to be a woman 

So I can experience 24hrs of womanhood 

Abuse 

Pregnancy 

Pain 

Heartbreak 

Single motherhood 

So I'd give my food out just so my children would be satisfied  

So I'd smile, even in pain so my man would feel happy  

All this I'd do in a Mans World 

  

For 24 hours  

I'd like to be that young lady 

Who's worth is calculated by her beauty  

Who's only hope of becoming a great woman lies below the belt of a man in a mans world 

Who's intelligence is only appreciated after a night with lecturers  

For 24hrs , I'd like to wear the heels of this young lady 

Feel the pain she feels in her hips 

And still smile just to impress  

All this I'd do in a Mans World 

Forgive me for the next 24hrs 

Because I'd do the unusual 

By being that African Girl 

Who wouldn't out fear bottle emotions and feelings feared 

Who wouldn't say Yes out of fear, when what i really wanted to say is No 

Who would go only because i really wanted to 

And wouldn't use sex as a tool 

But rather make Him look a fool 

Who thinks his money makes him cool 

I am new school 

And my only tool is school 

This I would do in a Mans World 

  

For the next 24hrs 

I'd like to be my mother 

Nothing but that great orator 

The Toast Queen 

The Queen of Languages 

And the sweet talker  

Who's field of play is the market place 

24/7 in the sun 

Stringing words together  

Composer of great songs and poems 

All in an attempt to win the hearts of customers 

All this I'd do, just to earn a dime, so I can feed my man and children 

In a mans world 

  

For the next 24hrs  

I'd like to be that Woman 

Who'd break all bounds 

Rock shoulders with the men in the mans world 

Manage Companies in the mans world 

Council men in the mans world 

Fight for the rights of fellow women in the mans world 

Command respect in the mans world 

And also hold political positions in the mans world 

So for the next 24hrs 

I'd like to be called arrogant 

Just because I know my rights in the mans world  

So I'd give 

And I'd smile  

And all this I'd do for the next 24hrs 

As a woman 

In a mans World  

25/06/2013 Hashmullah Kwophi Mawuli DaCelib8 

(Michael Derrick Williams Danso)