THE BOY CHILD - by Daniel Udom

The Boy ChildThe boy child sinks and sings through <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://tears.He" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tears.</a><a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://tears.He" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">He </a> is burdened, yet he must wear the crown of his sorrows alone.He was told that a boy does not cry,so he bottles up his <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://pain.Yet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pain.</a><a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://pain.Yet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yet </a> within him flow rivers of unspoken tears—tears of survival, forever at war with the illusion of luxury.The boy child must survive to make Mama proud, yet no one ever offered him a hand to lift him.He falls and rises alone,again and again, like an erection after every collapse.The same blooming world that smiles upon the other gender often appears blurred and broken to the boy child.Family expectations—oh, how countless they <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://are.If" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">are.</a><a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://are.If" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">If </a> he cannot meet them, he is told he is not man enough.No one ever told him, "Enough is enough." Enough of bottling up the pain.No one came to save him,though he walked each day as one already dead.They all said he should have <a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://spoken.But" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spoken.</a><a class="tc-blue external-link external-link" href="https://spoken.But" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">But </a> when he finally did, they laughed and dismissed his words as a humorous oration.When he cried,the world treated his grief as though it were merely a melodious rhythm.And when he gave everything he had to prove he was man enough,they said he should never have gone that far.Yet the only therapy the world ever offered him was solitude.And there, in that lonely place, the boy child sinks into his own ocean of tears.

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