Will A Man Know Poem by Alade Abayomi Idris

Will a man know
The values of what he doesn't have?

A child that knows the importance of mother
Would never throw pebbles at another's mother.

If a man knows how healthy laughter is
He wouldn't make his brothers cry.

A man who has never known joy of togetherness
Wouldn't hesitate to bomb the gathering of friends.

A man whose entitlements have never been taken
Wouldn't know the danger of piracy.

Will a man who is not hungry
Ever beg for food?

If cupid hasn't shot a man in his heart
He would say love is a mirage.

A man who has never laid with a woman and feel the sweetness of her warmth
Would say women are useless.

The destroyers of our humanities
Are those who obviously have never known what it means to be human.