Rise and Fall of My Beloved

Rise and Fall of My Beloved is a collection of poetry and prose about resilience-about the experience of stigma and rejection disease and suffering love and care loss and grief-and also a testimony of gratitude forgiveness and togetherness. Each of its three parts is a journey through lifes struggles pain and loss all of which require an inner force to overcome build rebuild succeed and heal: resilience. It expresses an undercurrent to an imposed destiny or stigma. Based on the life experience of my late brother Rise and Fall of My Beloved is a tribute to mankinds resilience to overcome adversities. The book takes readers from his vulnerable childhood as a neglected orphan set to die through a childhood in which he was bullied to his rise as an accomplished engineer and sadly to his fall as a dying patient of HIV/AIDS. Each poem depicts the essence of unconditional love and care the dignity of dying of AIDS forgiveness and family bond. This book is a manifesto of my brothers exceptional resilience the best memory of him that will live forever. It is an invitation an inspiration a reflection that when mankind encounters struggles disease pain death loss grief we have to grieve and heal and rebuild.