Sense Sonnet - Acher

Carry Back and Forth

Christopher Columbus, I be
Usually given good press
For the New World discovery -
Statues, holidays - I confess,
Do keep my ego pumped a furled.
But then there are those grim reports
Of bugs we brought to the New World,
Malaria, small pox - all sorts
Of contagious diseases that
Spread the New World in attack.
The Old World got some tit for tat.
Syphilis was one we took back.

I got the woe that both worlds had -
Arthritis really got me bad.