Eve is Tired

He said he wanted love,
but he doesn't know what that means.
He said he believed in integrity and honor,
but only as it applied to him.

He said he wanted an intelligent woman

until she questioned his "authority". 

Underdeveloped,
he memorized the script but not its meaning.

How incongruent, to see boys wanting to be called men
while still clinging to the unbridled entitlement of childhood -
falsely associating respect with submission
love with willful capitulation and the sacrifices
others make to appease their fragile egos. 

Sigh, 

Insufferable man-child

oh, do grow up already. 

We are tired. 

We can do this alone if we have to

but we'd really rather not.