Gerald: His-Story <br /> <br /> <br />Coffee and cigarette, and let the dark-evening begin <br />with the silent confrontation: of the mind and of the chest; <br />between the feed and the fill. But who knows who'll win <br />between the fight of passion and reason -the man's quest. <br />Another long hour to wait, to decide before it's too late <br />The calling card, waiting to take another chance <br />of love-making, the angel's game from head to feet <br />that, for some is lust, while for him is life's dance; <br />to be in tune with fate, to carry on the music <br />of heart's desire, but denied to him. A story, a tragedy, <br />But what can he do, food is not just for treat or trick <br />It is conversation to be won against fate's cruelty. <br />He was just the victim of society's partiality of judgment, <br />while we are his verdict of hypocrisy of crime and punishment. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Note: <br />P.U.B. (Pick Up Boys Collection) Issue # 04 series of 2009 <br />"Gerald: His-Story" is a story of a young man confronted with life's heavy challenge. <br />The obligation passed to him, to feed his two younger siblings, a sickly mother, and an unemployed-alcoholic father. The story of Gerald is not an isolated reality; in fact, this is just one among the many who struggled to be free from this bandage but cannot from the society's prejudice.<br /><br />Jordan Legaspi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gerald-his-story-04-2009/
