Today is World AIDS day. Three years ago today I wrote an essay for a scholarship, taking up a character of a teenage girl who faces a very tough situation in her life. I'm fortunate to not actually know what she is going though. My homeland though is not anywhere close to stabilizing its HIV/AIDS epidemic, and once again my heart goes to all those people around the globe who are forced to value life's every moment.
I Don’t Know How
How? How? Do you know HOW? I've asked it a million times never finding the answer. I'm still whispering it over and over. There is no strength left to yell it out loud. No strength in me any more.
I am laying in a huge white room with a long row of standard hospital beds. A beam of light comes through the hole of an old curtain revealing all the tiny particles of dust swirling in the air. I used to hate dust. Now it doesn’t matter any more. Nothing seems to matter. Only that [...]
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