La poésie

Day five of poetry month
5. The Civil War

A simple thought
A simple want
To become independent
By living on their own

A simple thought
A simple want
That made the North angry

The South was determined
To become a new country
By leaving and living on their own

The North was determined
To keep them
And stay united

But it all ended in a fight
Brother went against brother
Want against want
All ending in
Death

Hope was slowly slipping away from
The North
Happiness and hope was gained for
The South

It caused the South to become a bit
Arrogant
As they nearly won every battle
With their smart generals

While the North tried to find
A general that would actually
Make them win
Something
Big and exciting

But all the while the North
Relied on a man named Lincoln
To help maintain their hope

And when the North did win something big
In a town of Gettysburg
Lincoln came up with a speech called
The Gettysburg Address
This in short wasn’t three hours
But was around two minutes
This made everyone start believing

It was also around the time when Lincoln decided,
To free the slaves
If  the North won the war

This caused panic among
The South
For their great plantations
Depended on slavery

But not for the North
Who was full of gears,
Workers, and great big pieces of
Machinery

It caused both sides to fight harder
Till four years of fights and death
It all ended
With the North as the winner
And the South losing
As they became a united and independent country
With the North once again
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

Day six of poetry month
6. A danky shed

Hidden
Cold
Wet
In a dark danky shed
In the middle of an
Abandoned city

Fear creeps in from
Every cobwebbed corner
Pain starts to ebb
Away from my broken
Body
Blood drip drops
Through the musty
Floorboards
Tears starts to dry from my
Numb face

Ghosts filter past
Unaware of my existence
Acting dead yet happy
The clock ticks down to my own
Death

And only one person
Knows
That I’ll be joining the
Abandoned city of ghosts
And that person is
Me