[Verse]

For as long as I can remember, my disposition resembled a hopeless romantic

The glamor of quantity negated by the shades of my sentiments, the ethics of my peers were left abandoned

Even on a famine, upheld loyalty to my standards

Late bloomer but I still managed

Because my essence would befouled if I ever took any love for granted

I am no Columbus, steered clear of the world’s temptresses

Local taste plagued me interested

Sights set on a sail for a social sake

The ship of companions and stowed away

Contentment in my heart that overtakes

With this prospect: from dawn to dusk

I long for the life long voyage in the soul of my soul mate

I enroll in no fate in which your role holds no weight

Unpretentious existence, my only goal is yo’ sole embrace

For as long as I can remember, my disposition resembled a hopeless romantic

The contributions to the makeup of my character are all beyond my understandin’

Although, I surmise, the root of my romanticism is embedded in patriarchy

The ones who gave me heartbeats

In me, complex dynamics they’ve planted

Flowers, when left to their own devices, blossom with a beauty incomparable in nature

A delicate gift entrusted by Gaia should only be cherished by a caretaker

But what happen when bees arrive for the nectar

From which they derive their pleasure

Then leave and thrive in neglect of

The deprived, whose pollen has tried to rise and fly but gave up

Seasoned spectator, I’ve sat front row to degradation of my maker

Wilted with insecurity, brown spots of bitterness in place of her once sweet purity

Fault of my other creator in wake of his salacious behavior

A voracious crusader of the ageless nature to conquer everything and everyone on every adjacent acre

For ideals of brawn who wreaks devastation upon the most tender beauty, he’s but a complacent conveyor

With manhood as the archaic enabler

The instincts of the heart you neglected in a fallacious waiver

Is the same warmth of bein’ my yearnin’ embraces the chase of

Because my faith is greater

Then the ramblings of an ego who entices the idea of protection, not with bearin' affection, not with a shared connection

But an impaired perception of what love is at its most basic layer

Self-fulfillin’ prophecy, proclaimin’ love to shepherd the downfall of man is a stew in misogyny

And trailin’ short lived thrills is a huge hypocrisy

When they’re mere echoes of the same weaknesses you forsworn in your outworn philosophy

As your own progeny,I bear witness to the grandeur of masculinity in everything you embody

A human copy, I’ve seen my kin shadow in your missteps like a true prodigy

But a brute’s hollow feat power draws to be if happiness facades with me

So my inheritance, I renounced the stakes

Their road, I refused to take

And traveled the opposite way in this moot dichotomy