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My Fever

December 19, 2022
By AHPoetsch BRONZE, Montgomery, Illinois
AHPoetsch BRONZE, Montgomery, Illinois
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My rain cluttered window appears forward,

but the only thing which will manifest,

past the falling tears, was now behind me.


Pressing against the cold glass, 

transfigured my face into a mess of colors.

And I count each drop collected.


Like the monkey I was, I pondered

in great fever to the men and women outside.

It was certainly in fever that I did such a thing.


Each movement of the shapes outside,

gave a large sensation to my curious mind.

For a better world may be possible.


And so I burn, burn, and burn.

Hoping to realize something in this hell,

but I guess the mind is an unruly animal.


And it does not tell me,

Whether or not I will break this window;

Or if I will continue to burn, in a fever.


The author's comments:

I wrote this for class when we were focusing on metaphors. The teacher had these dice that when thrown out and combined give out a random metaphor. The metaphor I got was "The mind is an unruly animal", I really liked this so I decided to use it for this poem. I suppose it's about feeling trapped and stuck, even though you are the most observant. You know what you can do to get out, but you don't know if you will ever do it.


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