Font Color=darkvioletblack Death (School Assignment 9th) Poem by Jane Meyer

(Another 'abc' poem that I had to write for class. It's about the Bubonic Plague(aka Black Death) which is a disease that was brought over from Asia, I think, to Europe by boat in the mid 1300s (1347-1352) and was spread from fleas to rats and eventually to people. It turns your skin black and gives you huge painful boils. My poem's not great, but you have go where these kinds take you.)

At first I didn’t
believe them. I didn’t think anything
could spread so far so quickly, but one
day it showed up. It claimed my
entire
family and it’s
going to claim me. My
hands already show signs of decay.
I can’t bear to look at them.
Just a glimpse is enough to send me into sobs, remembering they will
kill me. This thing that’s
living in
me will
not allow my life to exceed its
own. Still, I
ponder at what I would have done. The
quiet life I would have had. I’m not
ready to die. I’m
still too young; only a
teen. A whole future,
unlived. All because of a
very stupid bacteria. I just had to get infected. The
world had to get infected,
except for those parts in the east. The disease has been rampant for
years and yet those parts remain untouched. The
zones that were spared as the word collapsed around them.