How will you measure the wide
gulf between words and hyphens ?
The apostrophes will give you
restrain and isolation.
The predators will sit and
wait for the fallouts. The night
was your domain to start
sinning; in erasing the numbers.
The midnight grief during the
assault of moon. Were you ready
to unmask the hidden inter-
polator ? The merciless thrush ?
Candidiasis ? It was eating
away your smell, your taste
and moments of glimpses
of the fire in the groins.
Satish Verma
Categories:
candidiasis, art,
Form: ABC
Anorexia, weight loss, fever
Frail frame of weakness shiver
With collapse of castle of immunity
Opportunistic infections eager
TO prey on the victim
Whose eyes in deep socket gleam
Kaposis Sarcoma, trauma, coma
Human Immuno Virus' melodrama
Call it the battle in the bloodstream
Plethora of symptoms ranging from
Candidiasis to Herpes simplex
Which render the phenomenon complex
Elisa Western blot and CD4 Count
Diagnosis extorts substantial amount
AIDS Patients deserve top priority in
medicare for their suffering and agony are rarest rare
Posterity will not forgive us
If in handling AIDS we sound frivolous
Categories:
candidiasis, caregiving, inspirational, introspection, ,
Form: Free verse