To earn a passage to a greener wonderland
He was required to present a cleaner healthier hand
A cleaner bill of health
To pass from step one to step two
He was to meet requirements outlined in a document or two
Subsequently he subjected himself to a bouquet of medical inquiries
All results returned negative but one
One result returned positive but why
Why did HIV return positive as he learned to live so positively?
What does a virus want in an innocent’s closet
Where did a virus pass to reach a zipped flap?
How would a virus pass into a chaste loin?
And into non-tranfused veins?
How?
The counselling session was a shouting exhaustion
…with his physician
He would not take a positive result for his HIV test
He doubted the calibre of the test
He did not know how the testing instruments were calibrated
How they tainted his blood samples with a positive tag
He sent his letter
…of protest
To all who matter
To his doctor
..a pointed protest
To his counsellor
..a passionate protest
To his preacher
…a pious protest
To his maker
…a prayerful protest
To his lawyer
..a paid protest
To all quarters
..a popular protest
All those who matter
Lent their ears to his protest letter
That protest earned him another round of tests
That test must not be just another test
That test must be a test to put all to rest
His protest earned him the test he deserved
And a palpable negative result returned
The negative result he deserved
A positive result an invisible soul deserved
But a negative result was he served
To commence a spreading spree
So they knew why a positive result was handed him
That was a case of swapping two different results
A case of tagging the wrong person with the wrong result
So they knew what a positive missile they handed another
Innocently carrying contaminated blood forever
Now there was a Harmful Invisible Vampire
Somewhere
Innocently roaming the streets
Ready to infect to effect defects free-ly
…unintentionally
An innocent weapon of mass destruction
An invisible weapon of mass infection
