Attention Poem by MaliQ Honesty Quallaz Nyasha

For it is what I long for more than intimacy
My heart's desires are left unanswered
For no-one seems to understand what a man's heart goes through
Dismissed is the fact that an ability to love was granted to all human beings

Like the sky is blue so is my heart true to the words I say
Deprive me of my need to have it
I live with a tinted soul
For I ask myself, Lord why did you put all these selfish people in my life
They want it for themselves never stopping to think I might crave for it too

ATTENTION.

She told me she didn't want me no more
For reasons so unknown to me
She told my friends I was a worthless dog
As if lacking teeth removed all the doggy styles from a dog
She asked me how I could have been so good and yet still fail to figure out what she really needed
Pissed at me she was for not being able to honor her needs
That's the reason why she left me because I failed to give her,
ATTENTION

For long they have said what a woman wants and what she doesn't
And for long they have discredited our existence in the love equation
They have made us more like bodyguards than lovers
Treated us like second class citizens living off a minimum wage
Yet they expect so much from us
What they have failed to realize is,
Just like them our needs collide
Just like them we want what they want too
But because they are them and we are us, they don't think we deserve it
All they ever did was take it all to themselves and left us working to please them without the favor ever being returned
Which made me wonder, who the heck said men don't want
ATTENTION.