I am a MAN!!!

This piece is an homage to Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)".

I am a man!

You don’t know who I am?

I am Adam father of all men

I live on my own moon circled by all the planets

I eat sorrows and I digest happiness

I slave in fields of fire and fields of pain

I feed my family riches and clothe them with love

I am a man!

You don’t know who I am?

I teach unborn seeds about my forefather’s ideas of equality and peace,

So new that they’ve never been discovered.

I wear medals of my achievements

I’m the master and the slave, I have no ruler

I oppress hate in a concentration camp on the surface of the sun

I commit murder with my hands and I create life with my heart

I am a man!

You don’t know who I am?

I hold a spear in one hand and literature in the other

I break the spear and I kill you with words from my rhyme book

I protect innocence from hardships with a life poem

My muscles are the mountains separating tribes

My mind is the sun that brightens dark rooms in lonely universes

Shooting salvation tipped luminescent arrows at your soul

I am a man!

You don’t know who I am?

I sit in the promised land talkin shit about Cleopatra to Ceasar

I sip 100 proof Milky Way water and create the Sahara when I’m dehydrated

I am the beginning, the present, and I have no end

I’ve destroyed uncivilized villages and rebuilt thriving kingdoms

I have open wounds in my palm and a thorn crown as a gift from an old friend

I am a man!

You better know who I am!

I gave my rib to create my worst nemesis

Humble, caring, loving, ambitious, righteous, protective…Man

I don’t know who I am but I know I’m a man

Without me no one could ever hear your roar

So don’t ever forget who I am

I am a man!

~Johnny~