(So I was reading a discussion on twitter about nice guys, them liking girls who are "bitches", etc. and it made me think back to a poem I wrote a couple years ago when my "brother" was going through a situation he couldn't explain. THe words still hold true now so I thought I'd share).
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When a Good Man starts to not give a damn.
A no-named good man with so many aliases goes through early adulthood trying to stick to what he’s been taught. Treat everyone as an equal, and treat every lady like a queen. SO that’s what he does. He isn’t liked by everyone, but those who do like him like him for who he is, not what he has or what he does for them.
Too bad for him that treatin a lady like a queen doesn’t result in him getting treated like a King. Every time he approached a female who caught his eye, with respect he spoke. Some looked at him like a joke.
And though somewhere down deep in his chest he thought she could be something more, he respects her wishes, and stays a good friend; he even listens when she bitches about the niggas she constantly gets with and talks about how she wishes the guys she dated were more like him. Funny how the answer I right in her face but she’s been blinded by everything superficial and she can’t even see it…..or him for that matter.
And for all the women he meets, his effort at finding someone to be with ends in defeat, all because he’s nice and respectful so they think he’s weak. And for some reason just like the wrong thoughts of who he is, weak becomes the way of his faith of finding the woman who wants him.
And with this something clicks in his head like a trigger. He realizes that being the good man he isn’t leading him to his queen like he planned. And he begins to figgah that if he wants to get some attention, its time for him to act likes a nigga.
Now the people close to him realize he’s being fake, but he doesn’t care, now he’s getting dates. He starts acting like a dawg so in turn women to him are now bitches. And when the girls that had respect for him before ask him why the change in how he acts, he says he gets more attention from them now, Fuck going back to how a good man should act.
He begins to forget that he’s really a king, forgets females should be treated like queens, he becomes eventually what he was only acting to be, and breaks the heart of an unsuspecting victim, and when a Real man comes and approaches her, she’ll instantly dismiss him.
SO the endless cycle continues, we always talk about a good girl gone bad, but that ain’t always the issue, sometimes a good man lead astray, all because has been taught that a real man and a nigga are the same.
