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!