A Tiny Insect Faces a Lizard

The tiny insect on the wall

Looked at the lizard under the tubelight

And thought this is what

The humans have named dinosaur

It is eyeing me

Assessing my shape

And calculating my size

Making mental acts whether me it can devour!

It has eaten many

Of my species and kind

I can see their hazy images

Through its thin flimsy hide

Swallow me, it can surely

But digest me it cannot, it knows

The venom I possess            

The lizard into pieces it can divide!

The Mother Nature has blessed

All the living with defenses

To protect them from predators

Horns or wings, colors or speed

Not just another insect I am

I am “in-sect” that sects inside

This lizard can definitely gulp me but

Him to death world this tiny one can lead!

Xavier Bage

Mon, April 11, 2016