Cast-out Outcaste

Euphemistically sex-worker,else ...ostitute
Why?Cos I'm lonely and destitute
And numerous men flock to my door.
Women do not,of yore
lest they render
themselves a whore
-a repulsive attraction.
For every action has
an equal and opposite reaction.

How can I be an AIDS child,
when I have no Aid?
Dont touch me,hear me,smell me
to be wise,
Only see me
for, the disease lies in your eyes.
An AIDS patient a day,
keeps the doctor away

RUKHAYA M K

Published in Words on the Wind of Change, By Brian Wrixon and Poets For Social Justice Blurb.Inc: Ontario,Canada, 2012.