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Poem:

Reflection:

 

Don’t cry, the heat will be gone soon

 

It sits, crouched, the grass dry,

It soon moves quickly,

With a hiss, a cry,

And burns the land.

 

With a clicking, a shifting,

It climbs, wicking away souls,

Fighters, innocents, the helpless,

While death stands in the blaze.

 

They weep, for they can do nothing else,

But take the weary into their arms,

For this heated creature cares not for those in its way,

It consumes and engulfs with a hunger unslaked.

 

But this being has been tamed once before,

By men made of green paper, encased in glass,

For their hunger was greater than the beasts,

And bested it in its a game of destruction.

 

Have we not asphyxiated time and time again?

On ash, heat, greed, and tears?

This antagonistic animal of arson,

Must soak in our blood, sweat, and tears.

 

This release must come, not from death and flame,

But from flood and peace,

A congregation of love and remembrance,

Where goodwill and perseverance triumphs.

 

Death weeps still for those who could no longer fight,

But their conflict was never in vein,

For water heals all,

When in the hands of the many.

 

Change is a necessity of life; whether you try to stop it or not, slowly but surely it will arrive. Sylvia Plath was a writer, who dealt with mental illness. Her status as a woman in the writing world, as well as how she was viewed only for her outward appearance, and not viewed on her mind, drove her into a despair.  Sylvia Plath’s Mushrooms is a lyric that depicts at surface level, mushrooms growing in the dead of night, silent and ever spreading. Mushrooms imagery of growing mushrooms is a metaphor for change. “Nobody sees us, / stops us, betrays us; / The small grains make room” describes how, like mushrooms in the night, change grows quickly, unseen and hindered. Making change can hit obstacles, areas that need to be shifted, to “Widen the crannies, / Shoulder through holes” like mushrooms growing from pavement. Plath describes how the marginalized fight for change, and how many make sacrifices, “Little or nothing. / So many of us! / So many of us”. The poem connects to society’s need for change, and how many acts to make change can go unnoticed or shunned because they are not agreed with by a higher power. Change can become an act of force and rebellion when it is needed in society, to make for better living for the marginalized. Plath’s poem really shows how change can come overnight, and how it is vital to push for change if one disagrees with and/or doesn’t like how things are run. Change is a necessity of life; push for it to be favourable.