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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1754285

An attempt to answer a not so easy question.

What is a Man?
Is he someone who can punch the hardest?
Or someone with a mighty heart?
For even the gorilla has brute strength

What is a Man?
Is he someone who can run the fastest?
Or someone who won't flee when he is needed the most?
For even the cheetah knows how to run

What is a Man?
Is he someone who can speak without pause?
Or someone who knows when the silence is bliss?
For even the parrot can speak endlessly

What is a Man?
Is he divinely infallible?
Or just like all the beasts?
For even he does not know

-alex avakiantz

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