HIV, the Slayer
\nby cricketjeff on March 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nA microscopic murderer assaults the world of man.
\nOne hundred million children now have nothing left to plan,
\nColossus on a tiny scale has humbled all the best,
\nNothing much that we can do to try to save the rest.<\/p>\n
The dead and dying parents mean the victims left are young,
\nAcross the blighted nations on young shoulders old heads sprung.
\nAn eight years old patrician has to earn his siblings bread,
\nThe mighty man who sired him is now close to death or dead.<\/p>\n
And mothers lie in agony, they cannot feed their brood,
\nThe babes who need their mercy are by tragedy pursued.
\nAcross the world where men seemed strong, they’ve fought their final fight
\nAnd maybe for a hundred years, these nations stand at night.<\/p>\n
The way things are and ignorance have brought us to this state,
\nThe Western World and Governments reacted far too late.
\nIn Africa and Asia they will die for many years,
\nTradition and intolerance just adding to their fears.<\/p>\n
Education is the way that we can end this plague;
\nA promise we must make the young and we must not renege.
\nThe future of the human race, of woman and of man,
\nSo raise your voice to let them know in every way you can.<\/p>\n
A message must be carried forth, it needn’t be this way;
\nA sheath of rubber membrane could have saved the world today.
\nWhatever else the message that is carried with our trades,
\nForget about our differences, and take a stand on AIDS.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nOK I think it’s done now
\nPrompt was Slayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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