Black Death
Deaths beginning
Death
is all I see
today
as it was
yesterday
and day before
and the day before
and every other
day i can remember
for the last year.
I knew I was no hope,
for the medicine
I use was no match
for the the curse
that was cast upon
the people.
As the color black
tattooed the skin
of the weak I ride
for the sun,
Not knowing
how far I shall go
I ride on
for the safety
I earn for.
Long Travels
It was at
the water's
edge of a far
away land
that I was
frozen still uponed.
Not knowing if
to cross or to turn back
and face the
Black Death
in the face.
Once I thought
about the
tearier of the screams
of the people
when they watch the ones they loved die in front of them,
I close my eyes then reopen them
and began to look
for a ship or raft.
The fear of the curse
stayed with me,
Making me not want to be seen or to be near by people.
So i stayed alone
for my long journey.
Ship of death
I had little silver.
It had been
Enough
to buy a
little ship
for myself.
Still worried about
the curse of the the
Black Death
I did not want to
ride in
public or shipping ships.
I was only afraid
of one thing
with such an old ship
was RATS!!!!!
I Was deathly
afraid of rats.
But at that moment
I hadn't cared
if i had to share my
ship with
The
nasty death givers.
Right before the end
It has almost been almost year
I was still on the sea.
I had gotten use
to the water.
I had little food left.
Yet my skin stay
pure peachy
tone and not
black as night.
I was almost to the
point of giving up
but i just wouldn’t i couldn’t.
i had made my way to the water
i had not turn back and
given up.
I was stronger
than that.
Yet i didn’t feel
that way.
I felt
Small
cold
defeated.
But i was not
going to
just quit
not now not ever.
New land
I had traveled for a year
with no signs
of the curse.
And no rats
had been
on the ship.
For the longest
time i had
thought that
the curse
would follow
me to
the new land.
But it couldn't get
over the seas
I had traveled across.
This was the
New Lands
and a New life.
I had to try to stay low
for that the
curse could always
come back,
but i lived my life
to the fullest.
Living up to the age 40.
