The fever took hold when I was young,
I wasn't very highly strung,
but the fever turns my beating head,
into worry, and how to survive, this terrible dread.
Upon the curtains, I closely stare,
where the demons I think are hiding there.
I cry out so pathetically,no one can hear,
and no one can see.

Now my body,begins to shake,
my tongue is dry and begins to cake,
I shiver,it feels so cold in here,
there is a fire,but is it fear?
A call for help, and I start to cry,
I think I am, to young to die,
I hear a noise upon the stair, and
see my mother standing there.

She holds me gently in her arms,
with a cloth she wipes my sweating palms,
I thank God for mothers everywhwere,for
their love, their care they want to share.
My tender body is turning red, my skin
very soon I will slowly shed, Scarlet Fever
is what I had, I have never ever, felt quite so bad.
Scarlet Fever could have finished me, but
I'm still here as you can see!

Hi Ken

An excellent poem and I am glad you pulled through it. Glad you wrote a poem about it to.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

Maggie

beautiful, great poem
where would we be without mum
loved this one
:wink2:

A fine poem full of fears,but Mum sorted it.I enjoyed the read kenanstiss.

bobart

What an ordeal, so glad you recovered. My partner recalls having this and being dunked in freezing cold water, presumably to bring his temperature down! Don't suppose they do that now. A well written piece on your experiences and as you say, thank God for mothers.

Your poem reminded me of when I caught Asian flu, everyone was dropping like flies. Of course mum looked after us all until she caught it, then my amazing gran came to the rescue. Where would we have been without grandma's too?

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and replys, it was a very frightening experiance, my temperature reached 102 degrees,I was delierious and started to hallucinate, the most horrific creatures were coming out of the curtain at me!
I was off school for six weeks!
It was good to express it literaly, thank you again for your kind words.

Ken

so glad you made it threw scarlet fever not many did great you made it otherwis would not have you as a friend on the forum

Thanks for your comments Freedom, greatly appreciated,it's a great forum with so many stories being told, in such touching and unique ways,

glad you are still with us, mothers are wonderful. i enjoyed reading this. and really like the endiing.

kimi

Thank you Kimi glad you liked it.

Hi Ken, :)

Mothers had so much to cope with back then, going back a bit futher, my gannny lost four. Your mum must have been at her wits end, but she brought you through and we are all glad she did.

Thanks for posting.

Blessings.panrobe

KEN, IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH YOU HAD IT BAD, ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN REMEMBER HOW YOU FELT AT THE TIME. I WAS WORRIED FOR YOU, BUT FELT BETTER WHEN MUMMY CAME INTO THE ROOM. EXACTLY WHAT MUMMYS SHOULD BE LIKE, ALWAYS LOVING AND CARING. I MISS MINE.

EXCELLENT.

LOTS OF LOVE SUE

Thanks Pnrobe, I don't think my mum realised how ill I was ,they went a lot by what the doctors told them, I feel now I should probably have been sent to hospital It was the worst moment in my life And at ten years old I thought I was going mad. (delirium)

Thanks Sue, I just wanted mum to make it alright again but sadly,it was two weeks before I recovered from the fever ,and another week before I could mix with anybody. It was an experiance I would not want to go through again.I lived through a nightmare, you cant imagine the fright.

Fever is a lovely poem that I can very well identify with. It also give just praise to the warriors of the world. Mothers. Well Done. I loved it!

Regards

Kaybook 2

Thanks Kaybrook,I never want to experiance anything like it again it was truly frightening and my mum came to my rescue.

mothers are so special, i cant imangine my son being as sick as the boy in the poem. His mother must have been terrified. so glad to see a happy ending

Thanks Kimi,the poem was about me,and my mum was worried, but in those days if the doctor said "dont worry" they didnt, it was just after the war and people didnt question there doctors diognosis .Glad people question now.

What a horrible experience for a child. Thankfully you are still here. Did your twin also contract the fever?

Yes My twin Chris got it too, but to a much lesser degree, he didnt have such a high fever or the hallucinations ,they really were the worst , I believed I could see aliens coming out of my curtain and they were going to kill me.Thanks for reading Cherry, appreciate it.