I caught the pox
And everyone left me
Left me to die
To die alone
In pain
In discomfort
My brother
My mother
My father
My family
All of them
They left me
The very second
They saw
The spots
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Pestilence
PoetryA collection of poems about the true horror of many deadly diseases and disorders spawned from the depths of jungles around the world. Pestilence investigates plagues from bygone days such as Black Death which ravaged Europe from 1330 B.C. to 1600 B...