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And it hit deep in my soul
like a mid-nineties R&B love song
but being in two thousand and sixteen,
I am extremely out of my element
As I convey the carnage all around me
I am pained to realize that
the beautiful plan I concocted
has gone horribly awry
I wish I had the tears to weep without restraint
because it is apparent that life as I know it
will never be the same again
And in these fleeting last moments
that I live as the man I have always been
before I am forced to adapt to the harsh reality
that I alone created with my cursed wreck-less ambition,
and at the very least become a scavenger,
lest I succumb to this dreaded situation and perish
I humble myself and strip naked out of my ego and pride
I fell victim to the lusts of my eyes and flesh
and to be honest my vanity has entrapped me
I pray to God for the fortitude, endurance and wit
to turn this awful predicament into an opportunity
to completely evolve and ascend through a stratosphere
few have breached
Click to listen to the audio of Outside, performed by the author.
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