Gerald: His-Story (04-2009) (/) Poem by Jordan Legaspi

Gerald: His-Story


Coffee and cigarette, and let the dark-evening begin
with the silent confrontation: of the mind and of the chest;
between the feed and the fill. But who knows who'll win
between the fight of passion and reason -the man's quest.
Another long hour to wait, to decide before it's too late
The calling card, waiting to take another chance
of love-making, the angel's game from head to feet
that, for some is lust, while for him is life's dance;
to be in tune with fate, to carry on the music
of heart's desire, but denied to him. A story, a tragedy,
But what can he do, food is not just for treat or trick
It is conversation to be won against fate's cruelty.
He was just the victim of society's partiality of judgment,
while we are his verdict of hypocrisy of crime and punishment.



Note:
P.U.B. (Pick Up Boys Collection) Issue # 04 series of 2009
"Gerald: His-Story" is a story of a young man confronted with life's heavy challenge.
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.