Meathead Monologue

it takes a man to love

but in the past
i have only known boys.
and i have only known girls-
no men, no women.
it's goes to say that i, too, am a girl.
all in all, these boys and these girls are still learning what they want and what they need,
and most of all
what they can offer others,
so there is not a single person who can blame
them for any mistakes they have made or
will make.
but it takes a man to love.
and it takes a woman to love back.
i have not known a man,
and i am not a woman.
love is foreign and i am still a girl,
i am still learning how to wake up and not
dread the day because that person will walk the earth
without a single thought of me in their head.
i am still learning how to see the alluring night sky
in that persons eyes,
and not a deep chasmic ocean that
i only know the surface of.
i am still learning that these hands are not something that will destroy everything they touch,
but something that may one day grace the face of someone who completes me,
and they will not cower.
i am still learning how to be a woman.
and it will take a man to love me.

r.k.