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June 9, 2013
By Anonymous

I was so cold standing there

I felt like I was completely bare
`
I wished that I would suddenly melt

But Nature didn't care what I felt



I cried

I whined



I even cracked the surface

I stayed in the complete bleakness

I wished that I would suddenly melt

But Nature didn't care what I felt


Until one day Spring came

And I was free to reclaim

The land that had been lost to me

© Anonymous

The author's comments:
My teacher asked us to write a poem about personification and this idea came to me. I thought of a river because of how it flows in summer. But then I thought of how lonely and cold it was in the winter and how the river probably did not appreciate being frozen. This poem came to be shortly after this thought.
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