Microbiology Poetry - HIV & TB - Double Trouble

Posted on 10:57 PM by Vignesh

A Friend in Need

Dear friend HIV

I am Mycobacterium TB

Asking for a promise

For a life-long friendship

I cherish your companionship

I was in extreme grief

These evil homosapiens rife

Plotted and planned to end my life

With BCG, Rifampicin and a lot of media hype

Until you gave me a new lease of life

I don’t envy you being in the limelight

I’ve enjoyed it all thro’ till a few years back

Just allow me to anchor with you dear

Then watch those homosapiens tremble with fear

And toss and turn in sheer despair

Let’s chart out an integrated attack

To avenge my insult a few years back

While you play with the CD4 cult

I’ll help the lungs and kidneys get shut

And invite friends Cryptococcus and Herpes to do the rest

Homosapiens did welcome the new millennium with a BANG

Instead let in shame their heads hang

Coz if we work hand in hand

Not far off is our victory GRAND

For they will soon be extinct from this land!

- Dr. Reeta Mani

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