ONCE A VIRGIN

My blood has been drained and drank

Yet it flows through my veins

Gushing out through the pores in my stomach

But I smile, I laugh, I enjoy

Living each day in order to die tomorrow

My sickness has been feared long before I was born

I linger in friends’ minds like nuclear bomb

Waiting to explode upon contact

So they go far away, passing where I don’t

Those I used to hug now give me a wave

And those I used to shake have now given me a break

I live in my own paradise

Talking to the only man I see in the mirror, myself

Ten years later, my skin grew to shrink

And my bones grew fat

They were too fat that I thought I’d eaten too much calcium

My presence everywhere was known

Before I could enter into anyone’s abode

Sometimes I thought they heard the crackling of my bones

Like the clashing of stones

Or perhaps like the noise heard when a new king is being enthroned

So I swallow myself in my cloth

And walk in the dark shadows of the night

I managed to hide from everyone but myself

As a scar now hung loose on my brain

They call it the Human Immuno Virus

But to me it’s the Hatred Inducing Virus

It is stuck to my head like an octopus

Giving me attention everywhere like Rick Ross

So I prayed to God, as if He was the cause

To deliver me from this sickness which is now my boss?

Now I can see my grave in my mind’s eye

Filled with skeletal bones and no maggots to feed on my flesh

For they are hunting my physical thirst

Shrinking one litre per day

Aaagggyyeeeiiiiii!!!! Ewuradi mewu!!!!!!!

If only I had a second chance

To redirect my life in the Almighty’s hands

I’ll surely do it at once

For it was a onetime interaction

That has brought me to this awful conclusion

Indeed abstinence is the best choice

You can only live long if you love life…..AIDS IS REAL!

T-DZANIE!