The Coming Of Age Story

Feb 10, 2008 - 21:14 PM PST

He is a boy no longer.
From this day forth he is to be known solely, in every aspect of his life,
As a Man.
For the deathday of his innocence,
Was the birthday of this burden,
He must accept it without resistance,
For that is what a Man would do.
Yet the boy inside the wouldbe Man does question.
The boy inside the wouldbe Man does resist,
For that is what a boy does.
The fear that the boy has,
Thats the Man shouldn't,
That is our conflict.
For the Man is to be, exactly that,
A Man, strong in every way.
Thus, the pursuit begins.
The unstable boy must learn what it is to be a stable Man,
And how to become one, without losing himself in the process,
In a world that expects to to have already done so.
He does this often through a quest of sorts.
A series of challenges that are to prove his manhood,
Not only to himself, but to others who have, or will ever, question it.
On this journey the boy will face his greatest fear.,
Assuming doing so, will make him fearless and thus, a true Man But the boy remains afraid, even in victory.
Upon reaching the end of his adventure,
As he acquires the head of a beast, gold, or whatever the symbol may be,
The boy comes to a realization, as all true Men eventually do,
That manhood is a myth, fearlessness does not exist,
And most of all, that all true Men, are just boys pretending to be.