Poem: Menstruation by Busingye Jabez of Tororo Town College

I was brave enough
To be your closest friend
To hold together our hands
Down by the spongy pads,
To wipe your tears of trespass
And sadness away…
To offer a well for you
To drip out ……
A shoulder for you
To lean on ………
To embrace you even when
You never knocked!
To drive your tears away ……..
To call you my best friend……….
But ……………
I was coward enough;
Not to tell you that I hated you,
More than you ever knew
And now….
I have accepted you are a river of Life!