ANGUISH OF A LETTER

ANGUISH OF A LETTER

For six long years we’ve known each other

Till we were as close as can any brother

Did I say brother when I meant sister?

Could your gender have a hand in making it bitter?

No, twas the arrival of the letter

That said, I should have known better

Your young niece needs blood I was told

If she dies I’ll greatly sorrow

No way even if we must borrow

Another’s blood is as costly as gold

I’ll give my blood, I said boldly

Just ensure am not treated coldly

So off I went to DIFF in a cab

Where I was ushered into a lab

In came a slender nurse and my arms were dabbed

That I didn’t feel a thing when my arm was stabbed

As the blood flowed my heart erupted with joy

But not for long because fate was coy

In the visitors lounge, there I waited

Letting my eyes feed on images as they floated

Watching a show called Big Brother

And see some folks act like they had no mother

There I sat till there was a flutter

I looked up and saw the nurse with a letter

Sorry we can’t use your blood type

Because it’s not the right phenotype

In this letter are further details

With all the test carried out on your blood

This letter plunged me into a bad mood

And I left like a cat with tucked in tails

Blimey you might query what I did see

That made me to lose every glee

It was a report labeling me an AS

I try to ponder on all I gather

And immediately recalled you were AS

Cancelling the likelihood of a future together

Again and again I remember that letter

That keeps telling me I should have known better

Odim Street, UNN, 1809 hrs, 27.05.11