Sonnet: On H I V

In sexual orgies, when immersed you had, In Adultery, a life you loved to spend, Much more than wine, women seduced you lad, Alas! Succumbed to retroviral end! Was oro-anal sex practiced quite safe? Was blood transfused, free off the virus load? Was love you made, worth it in every café? How long did you walk down the red-lit road? O sad victim of the AIDS pandemic! Your days are numbered in weeks, not in years! Alas! Of mind and body, thou art sick; Thy self-dug grave, thy melting frame well nears! Beware Mankind; the scourge could wipe thy race, If Thou canst wear a renewed moral face!