“Ode to a Chili Pepper”

Hello world! Recently, I have written an ode, a type of poem, for a class assignment. Today, I would like to share it with you. Thanks for reading this and stay tuned!

Oh chili pepper, without you my life would be bland​
Growing peacefully, sleeping in the farmland​
Bright and colorful, you never cease to enchant​
Waiting patiently to be picked, off your lonely plant​.

Your smooth fiery coat reflects the burning sun​
I pick you off your plant, and it cannot be undone​
One look and one’s heart will fill with delight​
You are now in my basket, in the pitch black midnight​

You sit still, confused as one can be​
Wishing you could go back, to when you free​
But now you are on the silent, cold wood-woven surface​
Patiently waiting to fulfill your grand purpose​

I place you next to your old friends on a cold metal tray​
And put you outside, for days, and days, and days​
Under the blazing, flaming, scorching sun​
Until you are dry as the desert and done​

I drop you into a bowl, and say adieu​
I know it will take a lot of strength to break through you​
With you coat so strong like an elephant's skin​
I crush, and crush, and crush, you and all your kin​

You feel like everything is gone within you​
But this step I cannot surpass, so I continue​
Until you are almost completely nerveless​
Still patiently waiting to fulfill your grand purpose​​

I then ignore you while I fetch the other ingredients​
I put you in the burning pot and you still show obedience​
I then stir you and you sizzle and spark​
And now you have made a nice soup, fit for a monarch​​

You think that you have become nothing​
But really, you are now more important than anything​
You think that you are nothing more than another cooked dish​
But now, you are exactly as I wish​

Your journey may have come to an end​
But your new life is at its beginning, my friend​
You have done me, and the world, a great service​
Oh chili pepper, you have finally fulfilled your grand purpose​

​-Aleena
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