Diane Williams
Get Real On This Train HIV/AIDS is damn real. It don’t have no color, race, size, shape—it don’t discriminate. I remember when this train was new coming out of the station. The people in the front didn’t want to be bothered with the people in the back. We were there. Get real, come to the back— we won’t bite. Triple glove to touch you, told you that they care, but it was their job! Treated me and my little girl like we were the walking dead. Come to my part of this train. I don’t care how I got it. It’s here. I’m here. I have to live with it. I want to tell my friends, children, neighbors, everyone how deadly this disease can be. Today I’m doing all the right things in my life. I can hold my head up high and say I’m HIV+ and I’m here!! Here to stay. Here to pass the word that wasn’t passed to me. Here to stand up for HIV rights. Women, children, HIV or not. People denying this disease is killing. Poor President in Africa. I pray for him. I also pray for a cure. Get real and get on my part of this train. It’s O.K.
