If you would have told

If you would have told me a year ago that I would be another statistic

I probably would have laughed in your face

I never thought that, that one night under the stars would change my life forever

I mean it felt so right at the time

We were young and in love, so I thought

I was naive, I never thought about asking him about his past

My stupidity left me with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Yes, I have AIDS, the final stages of my life

Everything was going so good

Now it seems like I'm a living stopwatch, waiting for the last seconds of my life to occur

People with my disease are supposed to look a certain way

I never knew that they could look just like the person to my left, maybe even my right

This was not supposed to happen to me

I'm supposed to go to college in the fall

Now I don't even know if I'll make it to graduation

Why me? What did I do wrong?

This is not my disease

It was only for the homosexual eyeing me down and the whores on the corner

Did he know?

I thought he loved me

How could I be so stupid?

I was supposed to live life freely

But I'm taking 8 pills a day just to survive 

WHY?????

I WAS A GOOD GIRL

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