Manny Pacquiao And The Heart Of A Champion Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

Manny Pacquiao and the heart of a Champion

It happened again.

Such a great performance for a professional boxer on a boring Sunday,

When every Pilipino were watching your fight in TV screens across the nation.

To a nation fatigued with poverty and limited opportunity, its was a time to pause for a moment of leisure.

It was a time for an hiatus from the crime story and the heavy traffics,

As drivers stop their UV's and stayed home to watch the fight,

As always the City and its activities were suspended momentarily on its tracks for yourshow.

It had been a long time spectacle what we have seen in your younger years,
fights to be repeated again today.

When with lightning speed and guts you demolish an opponent and send him weak knee and sitting on his butt.

When you shocked the world of boxing with left handed TKO's.

Defying physicallogic that a small man could take on ataller and bigger opponents.

We have witness bigger bullies humiliating the smaller guys,

It didn't mattered to you as you send them sprawling on the canvass.

While the world hail the greatest new talent,

You have demolish a myth that only caucasians with bigger browns and and larger body frames are the invincible.

Compare to the smaller Asians which were invariably weaker.

Now the years have prove your mettle.

Hatton you demolish on the second round,
and many others.

I watch your every fight with fear and hope and admiration.

That once again you will overcome the impossible odds this time of aging..

Every one in this country must have felt the same way as i was feeling,

As rounds upon upon rounds you pummeled your way with your iron fists the speed and master techniques of boxing.

we have hope for another spectacular victories and endings.
Although the sport was deem brutal and barbaric,

We were of a different opinion.
The olympians from Greece to the modern Olympics.

Man had always cheered their heroes and the champions.

In sports, in battles, in dreams there will always be the new heroand the previous champion.

Always the reaching for the stars.

Athletes, artists, scientists and physicists,
We must in our individual ways and in our creative ways,

Reach for the stars, whatever the means to transcend the limitations.

Puny man must reach for the impossible dreams.

A mastery for whatever arts or endeavours they have undertaken and create their own masterpieces.