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Aids and Abstinence!
Contributed by
pete
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Tuesday, 13th July 2004 @ 09:17:11 PM in AEST
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AIDS AND ABSTINENCE(Peter Sprenkeler)
The latest meeting helddignitaries from afar,
To discuss the greatest pandemic of all time.
Red carpetsglitz and glama Hollywood style opening,
As the millions afflictedcontinue to die meantime.
Twenty five million dead the horrendous tally soars,
Tenfold morewith the illness look to the meeting for hope.
Amid all the debatethe thrust and parry and diatribe,
Abstinenceit is tenderedthe only way man can cope.
Those afflicted stand in shock and disbelief,
Sureabstinence would rapidly curb the spread of the disease.
Yet what of the millions dying and suffering?
Seems the meeting overlooked their impassioned pleas!
Already counted among the deadlest so it seems,
Abandonedlet the disease run its wretched course.
With abstinence at least there will be no new victims,
They tender coldlywithout a shred of remorse.
This suggestion is ludicrousa band-aid approach,
Callously treating a symptomand ignoring the cause.
Those now dying are left without a morsel of hope,
The pandemic will go on mercilessly without pause.
Where is the resolutiona world wide united effort?
Massive injections of funds to find a medical cure?
Where is the compassion and sympathy and understanding?
Initiatives of worthfor the sufferers to reassure?
We spend trillions taking a few photos of Saturn,
Yet for AIDS researchmoney is difficult to find.
Priorities are simply absurdwe tend to overlook the fact,
That this disease has the potential to eradicate all mankind!
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pete
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Re: Aids and Abstinence!
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by Jenni_K on
Wednesday, 14th July 2004 @ 12:43:14 AM AEST
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True.....
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