What is a man?
A job that you didn’t apply for
A job that you don’t take vacation
A job that hurts and breaks
A thankless job

You sacrifice your life
You sacrifice your time
You sacrifice your patience
You sacrifice your peace
And yet it’s never enough

You must learn the way of pain,
Knowing pain, you must learn quickly
Pain birth you, pain demands you
Run, fly… but no one escapes pain
Make peace; pain does not care

A man with many faces
One day you get to be angel,
Another day, you are a savage
One day you are a peacemaker,
Another day, you are trouble

A man without empathy
A man without ethics
A man who lacks economics
A man who lacks emotions
That man is not a made man

No one owes you anything
Yet, you owe your life
Yet, you owe your time
Yet, you owe your strength
To a world that keeps taking

You will understand quickly –
Pain is real
Failure is a teacher
Power is corrupt
Purpose is the only explanation

Other men have suffered before you
Other men are suffering now
Other men will suffer then
Know this, know peace
The curse of suffering continues

There is always a man out there –
Hoping to take what is yours
Wanting to use you
Open to betray you
Eager to kill you

I hope one day my young sons-
Ruled by wisdom and strength
Find meaning and their purpose
Understand the burden of a man
And survive this terrible world