Thinking Small

The tiniest creatures

Will often times cause the

Most irritation forHumankind.

The pesky barrage of the

Infinitesimal pest is a test

Of the tolerant mind.

Consider the flea, the louse

Or the tick,

Diminutive blood-suckingvermin

Who kick and claw

Until they get into yourskin,

Inviting legions of theirkith and kin

To come along for thebountiful feast,

And drink the blood of thegiant beast.

But the most destructivecannot be seen

With the naked eye, no matterhow keen.

They breed and grow withoutprocreation

'Til their legions are thesize of a nation,

And their needful ways arecause for alarm

As we shrink from theircoming

And quake from their harm.

Microscopic beast of evil,

Hidden armies you employ.

Singular is your agenda;

Humankind would you destroy.