The dreadful scourge of leprosy <br />no introduction necessary, <br />blows clouds of poison gas <br />a warning to us all, do keep away. <br />A penalty of scars and foul decay, <br />soon sends its tentacles into the mind, <br />there is no cure, just hopeless melancholy. <br />Of those who do associate, to help <br />be it the nurses or the breakfast cooks, <br />not one will ever be without the gas, <br />they have been soiled beyond repair, <br />associates of epidemiology. <br />It is as if the brother or the spouse <br />had murdered even raped, all in cold blood, <br />and thus infected, like the germ of leprosy <br />all those of common origin with pus <br />that knows no barricades and no humanity. <br />Be warned, my friend, do pick them wisely, <br />lest you be judged just like the apple from the tree.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/judging-the-apple/
