Poet Soldiers

Poems written and read by members of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cadet Force for and at an HIV/AIDS candlelight memorial

Are You My Friend?

Ten years we walk together,
Ten years you been me friend,
But five years ago, ah never tell you wha did happened then.
You remember Gina?
Yes Gina, de African goddess sent?
Well she and me got together,
And you could imagine how that went.
A few weeks later she give me a call,
And ah tell yo boy, ah nearly bawl.
She said she had de thing - de AIDS yo know,
But ah couldn't believe that that been so.
Ah check me doctor.
And ah tek de test,
Fo days and days, man, ah couldn't rest.
De test came back,
And de worst was true,
De girl been ha de thing
And I got it to.
Five years now it ah burden, burden me chest,
Ah ha to tell somebody,
And ah think you de best.
So tell me now what you gwine do,
Yo gwine walk way from me?
Or could I count on you?
- Darrien Ollivierre, Lieutenant