Ebola.

Just flown in, from Africa

Thermometer Infrared for Test Ebola

Now and again, is flashed across my face

I am, separated,”sorry sir you gotta go for further tests”

Upon request to know what’s goin on, ‘just taking precautions’

Is all I am told

For your information, Mr.Jim Crow, I come from East Africa

Millions of miles, from West Africa

And just because I am black, doesn’t qualify me as an Ebola vector

After my forceful quarantine at the airport, a PR-stunt apology is made

In the name of routine checks, you know

I won’t take it at heart; I have a job to resume

In the morn, eager to see my colleagues

I am the first one at the workplace

Everyone says a hush hae, not moving any closer

The rudest shock, is when my boss’ secretary, forwards an email

An extract reads, Just to take precautionary measures, you gotta take a mandatory leave

Of twenty one days, before you resume your job

This is where I get to swallow, the H.I.V patients’ testimony

Stigma kills faster than the real disease

I feel helpless, ostracized and all those vocabularies that imply loneliness

At home, no neighbor comes to my place

God, this can’t be happening!

I am just an African; surely I got a clean bill of health

Why are you doing this to me?

Style up, people.Ebola is not a racist disease

Stop Ebola- profiling Africans.