My new friend Kim
has MRSA
and like me is poor,
Unlike me
she doesn’t seem to think
that she deserves more.
But oh she does
deserve to be
all that she was
all she can be
my friends Kim
Jami John and Tim
deserve to be
Mrsa free.
For her condition
she blames no other
and can’t take charity
even from her mother
So she is covered
Fifty boils last count,
I can’t imagine living
with half that amount.
She meekly asks
where to get aid
and emotional support
like she’s afraid
to impose too much
on a society
she is part of
and for the life of me
I can’t see
being meek and selfless
as I hear her plea
for emotional support
too full of what will be
Will be,
When I’d be screaming
“Get this out of me!”
So I’ll scream for her
and everyone suffering
IN a voice shrill and loud
with no buffering,
“See them! Help them!
Don’t turn away!
MRSA is HERE!
but doesn’t need
to stay.”