Poem 232 "Masculine"

Poem #232 - This poem is an homage to anger and the clever children who harness it.

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   Joshua Brown

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Will you ever get real angry?

Will you rage against your hell?

Will the settled dust of failure

Be astirred by golem's bell?

Will the silent curse of hatred

Spewed by those who should have helped

Be broken by your willure

To engage your truest self

In quiet deep embrasure

Of the anger you withheld

To protect yourself from violence

As a child wrapped in pelts

The skins of other mammals

In their death protect from harm

But your childlike ambition

Now cut off your own arm

Handless and by magic

In the cold and bitter storm

You slowly start to wander

From the solace of the warmth

Betray. Betray. Betray yourself

To keep yourself from death

But further now the lying

Brings your hands around your neck

Let go and rage on further

To protect yourself from he

Who abandoned you neglected

In the rough and cruel seas

And crashing waves embitter

For the will you seek to dive

Further, farther, deeper 

Into truth and love and life

You now in rage accomplish

All the things that you require

By the steps you take in ardor

Of the love of Sodom's fire

Burning flesh to purify

The soul from daemons will

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📅 Written May 28, 2025

📍 Written at Joshua's work along the West Toll Gate Creek

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There are a large group of petty men who live out their childhood simulacra until their final petty death. What kind of life will you live, will you continue on in the world fashioned by others, their words embraced, their ideas embodied in your own actions to appease and eke out a small survival? Or will you dare to feel your own feelings, living out your own life, thinking your own thoughts and, reaching back to others, build a beautiful and powerful life, family and community? 

a Joshua Brown poem #232 "Masculine"

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