Beautiful Yet Dreadful
The sweetness short lingered and enjoyed
The dreadful aftermath -
Long suffered and happiness forfeit
The ultimate - undertaker ordained
Such inexpressible sufferings
Staring at the life buzzing before their eyes
So unsympathetic of theirs
When they are fading so steadily out of this life
Unregulated sweetness and enjoyment
Uncontrolled poverty and languish
The accurate recipe
For absolute and definite doom
Days painfully mature into weeks
Onto the bones the flesh hastily shrinks
Unto them the painful reality dawns
Their health and life so much at loss
Five minutes of pleasure
Is what they traded their indefinite mortality for
Now still so young
Yet a coffin they are ready own
Power over death we have not
Yet how immense our power to summon it is
Since of the shortcuts to it you are already informed
You are at liberty from that road to desist or not
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NB: The poem is talking about AIDS
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