Male Victims

Men are victims too.

 

Male Victims

 

In a room,

He is set apart from others,

He gazes out into the window

Because freedom is only a dream to him

 

He dares to utter a word.

He was taught that his voice

Has no meaning.

 

He’s been molested,

Yet assumption by society

States he can’t reform.

 

He’s been battered,

But he was taught

“To take it like a ‘man’.”

 

He’s been a victim of rape,

If rape isn’t about sex, but of power

Why do Prosecutors argue,

That the rapist must have a penis?

 

Why do we doubt

When a man is a victim?

Weren’t we all created?

Equal in the eyes of heaven?

 

Why judge him less than a person?

Why do we need to place labels

With other people’s ignorance.

 

A man cries,

You call him sensitive

 

A man who’s believes in romance,

You assume he’s gay.

 

When a woman is being beat,

It’s called, ‘battering’

But if a man is being beat,

We say it’s okay?

 

 

 

Experts say:

If a man disrespects a woman,

He disrespects his

Mother, sister, and daughter.

 

I say:

If a woman disrespects a man,

She disrespects her

Father, son, and brother

 

Our world isn’t pioneered by one gender or another,

It’s pioneered with corruption.

 

As for the man that sits at the window

Falsely accused of domestic abuse,

Because for the first time,

He stood against her violence.

 

Abuse can push us so far

And it pushed him behind bars.

 

5-4-04

 

Copyright © Chong N. Kim, 2004

 

 

 

Reviews

[Mr. Lopez]

This poem was written from a chapter of my life it seems. Being pushed too far that there is no return is a scary place to be. This is going straight into the library. GREAT WRITE!!!

Mr. Lopez

[Adela Muresan]

A very touching peace you present.
It is my opinion that this concept would have looked better in prose, but the ideas are very well expressed in verse as well.
I agree with the facts:
,,If a man disrespects a woman,
He disrespects his
Mother, sister, and daughter.

I say:
If a woman disrespects a man,
She disrespects her
Father, son, and brother,,

People should learn to consider humanity, as well as power.

A.M.