Steve Garrett is calling the modern man. Are we listening?
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Born to be wild
and reviled.
A heart of darkness
living in the shadows.
A beast with no beauty;
an ugly otherness,
ducking and diving,
sneaking and hiding.
Masking the enormity
of my deformity.
Now I’m ready to clean up my act;
cast off that distorted inheritance,
and come out into the open.
Praying that you’ll see through my lying disguises
and, sensing a sweetness under thickened skin,
kiss me deeply until I metamorphose
into a smooth amphibian
who leaps without looking;
long legs extending,
and hope eternally springing.
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Steve Garrett is a Cardiff (Wales)-based social entrepreneur, writer, poet and musician (aka ‘Stainless Steve www.stainless-steve.me.uk) who has a long -standing interest in men’s issues and is currently involved in several UK Men’s groups. Steve feels like he has made every relationship mistake possible, but has finally learned a few things (from experience and often, from women) and is keen to share them with anyone interested enough to listen. Steve set up ‘FeMANism www.femansm.org.uk as an online forum where men could explore together how to achieve liberation from the ‘Man Box’ at the same time as supporting women’s struggle for equal rights and freedom from fear – to the benefit of both genders.Steve has published 4 books of poetry which can be viewed at www.issuu.com/stevegarrett1.
Photo by Varvara