So I had to write a poem for my creative writing class, and it ended up being a Hetalia fanfiction? Kind of. I mean, I wrote it about Kumajirou 'cause he's the awesomest character ever. The theme that I had to incorporate was 'Stories can save us' and I didn't know what else to do. If you don't like poetry, please don't read this because this is a poem. Thanks.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned Hetalia. But I don't.

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Once before, a story

Was swallowed in the sea

It laid there for a thousand years

Too stuck in damage to breathe.

Among it were its brothers:

Pearls and diamond rings;

For its new home was a shipwreck

Once swallowed by the sea

Kumajiro the stuffed polar bear

Was too swallowed in the sea.

A boy named Matthew dropped him

Down into the green.

Kumajiro felt himself sink faster

Past fishies, shrimp and sharks,

For when you have been swallowed in the sea

Where you end is dark.

He felt himself hit bottom.

He couldn't see the light.

Swallowed in the sea, he felt

As if he was seeing night.

The shock hit him like a bullet.

He repeated, Swallowed in the sea.

He felt the sand around him

But found instead something scaly.

This creature he felt was lucky,

He was not swallowed in the sea.

Kumajiro reached down again

Trying to break free.

Instead he felt deflated paper

Once swallowed by the sea

He tried to pick it up,

To see what it could be.

He recognized it as a book

And then felt less alone.

For, it too was swallowed by the sea.

It too had reached its home.

He tried his best to read it

Until he remembered he couldn't read.

He was a stuffed polar bear

And the ink was swallowed in the sea.

Kumajiro grabbed the book

And held it to his chest

Now that he was swallowed in the sea

He would try to do his best.

Then Kumajiro was rising up,

And the book was finally free.

They were swallowed by a whale

And spit up by the sea.

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Thanks for reading! :3