If Not Emasculated

someone must have thought our representatives 
were the beasts and wife abusers 
"take the sons of this generation 
and clothe them in colorless dresses" 

Jesus entered the temple marketplace 
felt his fists grow tighter 
walked up to the nearest salesman 
flipped the blasphemed table over 

"make him sensitive" 
"make him soft and spineless" 
"how will he be safe if not emasculated?" 

someone must have thought the way to peacefulness 
was to exalt the feminine 
now we're heroless, children motherless 
and how closer is the vision? 

Jesus gathered the broken fishermen 
Who will go with me? 
Who will fight with me? 
Who will die with me? 
Who will lead with me? 
Who will be a man with me?