I Don't Know Why 

I don't know why
Grown men still refuse
to cry.  

Holding on to the pain that the father before felt
and providing tomorrow's youth
with a whole lot of abuse 

Generation after Generation a myriad of stereotypes
about the real man, who
we still don't understand 

I don't know why!
Is it to late
to celebrate? 

There is no more sand
in the hour glass.
Young men enter the prison
and old men may leave,
eventually 

Life moves on slowly
while memories fade rapidly
as we search for an answer
to what is known as fate. 

I don't know why!  

I just know
I'm not ready to die.

Arnie King
Bay State Correctional Facility
Norfolk, MA