SS
The twilight for the new moon hangs outside
Marking the New Year festival in my village
In the town hall, the local jubilate
Inside: the forbidden child is stricken with crisis
Men and women intoxicate themselves in the dark;
The celestial bulb in short circuit with the sun
Up there: space hacks out as fraction of the moons surface
In there… a sickle cell hacks away a child’s tissue
On a deserted place Tep made abode
On a depleted blood he would wrestle
The plague of painful episode
That came alongside a blocked vessel
Live cells once made their orbit within these veins;
Weakened cells left him in severe pains
Veins remain, but contents sickle…
Sagging out for what appears to be a shortened life
Phases of the moon ago
Before my expulsion from school
My best friend announced before my peers
‘Arben is the sickler!’
I had a mind that overshadowed my weaker frame…
It is unfair my teacher would yell ‘SS’ to my name
Few years have gone past
Arben has lived his dreams at last:
A man in white overrun
And a stethoscope hooked around his neck
After all said and done
He survived age twenty-one
A case landed gracefully into his noble hands
Involving a boy tender by age
He turned out to be the ‘Tep’
Suffering from sickle cell disease… critical stage!
The expert on gene replacement therapy
Performed his art, and administered his remedy
… In the molecular world became a clear ultimatum:
By the twenty-seventh day
SS would revert to normal again
Minutes to midnight
The full moon dominates the celestial dome
Tep lies beside Arben in his new home;
The moonlight flooding the silent world outside
The tissues of the little boy equally flooded with life
That runs in normal blood
On the inside
Analogy knits the moon with a blood cell
For the Tep who aspires to become the world’s boon
And once again the celestial clock has kept her tab
New moon…Arben: stigmatized kid in school;
Full moon…now chief of the medical lab
That has drawn a lifeline
For those living with sickle cell disease
In my village...
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