Category: Thinking about the Future
Words for World AIDS, December 30 2007
On that Day, I will remember, I will not forget.
I will remember, and you will too, the sound of mothers crying over a lost child. I will remember, and you will too, the quiet look of desperation in the young girl who now knows that she is HIV-positive. You and I, we will not, we cannot forget the children left abandoned by the death of their parents. We cannot forget the children left in the care of the grandmothers. We can not forget the grandmothers who were the last ones standing. I will remember, and you will too, the lines of patients at the clinic, and our long talks with them, and the slow handfuls of pills that kept them alive, day by day, day by day. We will not forget, we will, we providers, all remember how few of our patients had medicine, how many could not get the test, or the x ray, or the pills.