Hiv/Aids
By Kenneth Maswabi
you are a scourge
afflicting us with your bag of diseases
worms and parasites your servants
proclaiming your evil intentions in daylight
hounding the young and old
possessing venom in your spit
discharging the final shot without hesitation
you brought death to our doorstep
and made sorrow your crown
Bathing in our tears
and basking in our fears
you are a scourge
you wasted no time
claiming your first victim
then your second
and got addicted to our flesh and blood
you became careless
killing both the innocent and guilty
unashamed by your appetite
you brought your gang of killers
Tuberculosis aka TB aka Scrofula
Kaposi Sarcoma aka “Mr. Purple Bloom”
Just to mention but a few
you killed people day and night
surpassing your expectations
you wrote your name in the history books