Little weeny critter
Just before drifting to sleep
My heavy eyes becomes alerted
Something catches my attention
Reminding me of
Your ardent love of tiny critters
An ant creeping into a little bored hole
Walking steadily
Like a free creature it will never be
Slithering like a snake
Unaware of enemies lurking around
Oblivious that when a mortal man sights it
Its lifespan gets cut in seconds
I move to squash this clueless critter
Seconds away, my leg refuses to move
My brain starts speaking
I think about the days I doubted your sanity
Your endless rants about their innocence
How the world of angry mortals act unjustly
Viewing them as important as a fart in a hurricane
As insignificant!
‘Hardworking that YOU ARE’, you said
‘Yet viewed as useless as a frozen shirt in the cold’
Your words will haunt me
If I end the life of the kind you hopelessly spare
The life of this helpless critter
The poem is about a critter or in this case, little insects, expressing an individual’s inability to squash an insect because of guilt.
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