Once..

A boy there once had been

An asian, malay, only a teen

Caught between tradition and trend

Tribulations abound this boy turning man



Dictations of religion did he follow

Yet just the same did the rules he forgo

Prayers he did for goodness and acceptance

Into drunken stupor did he also trance



This was a boy in search for love

From a family that was too busy to know

From friends who could not understand

As well as society that did not comprehend



Lo a rebel!

A brat to be despised

Behold societal trash

This boy should just die!



Words of those who understood not

They spoke of which they knew naught

Of them he held hatred as they did him

Disrespect them he did as they did him



None understood this lonely boy

Those who tried could only sympathise

He needed none of them

Accept he would none of them



Parents tried to reach for him

Elders pestered to guide him

Friends engaged to lure him

Who should he follow?



There once had been a boy

And a confused boy was he