I had a desire of becoming a man since long, <br />But sorry to say, <br />I could not be <br />What I had wanted, <br />The desire of becoming a man at least <br />Could not be fulfilled. <br /> <br />What became I, mattered it not, <br />What I have become- <br />This pains me often to feel, <br />How inhuman have I grown <br />Over the passing years, <br />This cruel passage of time. <br /> <br />I too had wanted to be a man, <br />A man in need of another man, <br />But sorry to see, <br />I could not be <br />What I had dreamt of <br />As for becoming a man <br />And it is really to find a good man <br />Though there may be many to be called so. <br /> <br />Had I been, I would have felt myself blest, <br />Had I been manly, <br />A man behaving as a man, <br />At the giving and receiving end of his, <br />So human and humane, <br />I would have thanked God <br />As for making it, <br />But the company corrupted me <br />And turned I so much of being inhuman.<br /><br />Bijay Kant Dubey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/had-i-been-a-man-i-would-have-thanked-god-and-felt-myself-blest/
