Is crying only women’s prerogative?

When I have been angry at my children,

they have been quiet.

I have felt them talking to me without speaking.

They appeared to be screaming without raising their voice.

Being well-behaved and well-groomed children they are.

What was the result?

I would end up crying without weeping.

Now that they are gone

And I remember all that,

I am weeping.

When I am without my children, I cry.

Is crying only women’s prerogative?

If there be equality between sexes,

why can men not cry?

Have heard and felt too.

At times, when I am very happy,

tears roll down my cheeks.

But when I am sad, less or more,

I have never felt like laughing.

Nobody can make me smile.

After all, wise men have said :

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone.

Weeping is contagious too!!

I wonder if other animals ever weep.

But then, other animals may not have any issues about:

“What is” is not “what it ought to be”.