The Deadliest Disease
Tinged red blood in colour Running and fleeting in a chase from One To Another. Weak yet sudden Causing choking tears Cracking coughs And stinging foreheads. Women cry as they lunge for the last tissues While others step back as soon as they Spot those Narrow Small eyes. Chinese Chinese. They whisper. And that girl spotted with those Narrow Small Eyes clenches her hand As the eyes of the crowd stalk Her like prey. Strangling Wrenching Shoving Hurting Our hostile friends Our abandoned sisters And I cry. Because Didn't you know? The worst disease of them all Is never the disease itself. It is...