Stone Face

I dig

Thick clumps of dirt fly

I bury

Deep down

Far beneath the surface of a stone face

Hot warmth melts ice

But men don't cry

"Don't be a bitch,"

They say, "only girls cry"

Yet I cry inside

But, I'm no girl

I breathe in the toxins of reality

My masculinity lives in a glass house

Yet everyone itches to throw stones

They can't see the cracks

Every moment that passes my facade fades leaving a scared little boy

A shell of something meant to be big… and strong

But I'm no rock

So stone faced

I waiver

Inside my throat swells and tears begin to fall

But

Men can't cry

So I die inside

Here I sit

Digging a grave for the boy whose life crumbled away beneath the stone's weight

I'm so stone faced when I die inside

-Alex