call you, HIV

i should have known

when first we met

that you could never love me,

you just used the words to get

what you wanted of me,

once you sensed my vulnerability

by breaking down my resistance with charm and guile, eventually by your insistence, i dropped my guard

and got past my final barrier

when i accepted being with you

that’s when my troubles began

i saw you as being so beautiful

actually you were uglier than sin

if i knew then what i know now

you’d have never got the time

not even as a friend

you are purely rotten to the core

you never loved me

you just wanted to destroy

what you could never have

in loving+truth, compassion

i think i will call you, hiv

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