User blog:The Targaryen of District 4/Poem I wrote

Here's a poem I wrote about Rue's reaping. Most of it I had to make up. It's for English homework next week.

There I was in the square,

Waiting for the district escort in despair,

She was to send us to our slaughter,

A mother was to lose her daughter,

I was standing with children also twelve years old,

We stood together in the cold,

Our escort finally walked on the stage,

Some of District 11’s citizens went into a rage,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yet she still continued her speech,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even though she knew that angry citizens were within her reach,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The same Capitol propaganda played,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Panem’s history portrayed,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When the video stopped,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Silence had dropped,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Time had come to pick two of the district’s youth,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Judgement time, a moment of truth,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A white envelope was taken from the female reaping bowl,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I could feel intense fire burning in my soul,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The fire increased as it was revealed,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I was the unfortunate one, whose fate was sealed,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Many were looking at me,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Some sympathetic, some watching in glee,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Knowing that they were not picked for the bloodshed this year,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And yet my mother was the parent selected to jerk a tear,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I joined the ridiculously dressed woman, in front of the district’s population,

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My face to be shown throughout the entire nation.

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