Vincent Awuonda: HIV / AIDS The Rebellious Monster

THE REBELLIOUS MONSTER (HIV/AIDS)

You, you, you

You are a wonderful person

You are like no one

Here my voice

Here is the Monster

Here I say,

For warriors are scared too

For when it bites,

Silence becomes loneliness

Then you wonder always

‘What if’ and ‘if only’

This Monster that bites and kills

Leaving a new awareness of pain

This Monster came I heard

I then wondered with wonder eyes

It came to fight and consume all

Are you not fearful?

I cry for my Brothers

I cry for my Sisters and

Our parents are not spared too

We are caught in a web of hopelessness

By gone were the bright days

When we talked of the Monster

But it was no threat

But the how many Hospital beds own you

How many widows and widower are confused because of you?

How Many orphans curse you?

We are caught by the jaw of the powerful Monster

So come together for this war

Blame not each other

When you see this Part of reality

Pains and stains. 

By: Vincent O. Awuonda 

Poet, Story Teller and Actor 

Vincent_flex@yahoo.com