Multi-Genre 5 - Poem
Tears flow down a face once smiling
As the word comes forth
You are Positive.
Life as you know it has changed
forever
Why?
A virus now inhabits your blood.
Does life now end in a sour note
Or begin with a new hope
A new vision now, for life will
never be the same you prayed you would not hear the words But alas now you must
move on.
Life is now clearly about survival
Learning how to live a new one
Hard as it may seem at the time
Life has not ended Just the old
journey A new journey of peace and understanding
Life is more joyful, everyday a new
blessing helping others to understand you have not come to your life’s end.
Just in time a new journey has begun
You see life now as a new beginning
To live to the fullest enjoying each
day Now you take the time to smell the roses Colors are more vivid and dreams
more real Now you live positive
Loving now more than ever
Living now with a new understanding
Life is what you make of it daily
Now let the world know
You may have HIV but HIV does not
have you It’s only a virus that inhabits your blood.
Living your life Positive
Circle of life is now beginning
As new friends come Love grows
Peace to live Fighting from within
Praying that one day soon there will
be a cure To kill this virus.
Source Citation: "Orphaned by AIDS." Family
in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth
Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 305-307.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 18 Mar. 2014.
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