Virus's Vindication

It is not that I hop or fly to you

We are legless wingless primitive lives

The least privileged on Earth

It is the droplets sprung out from

Your uncovered mouths

Propel us to the air to spread

I can’t sneak out of the house and run around

to spread the disease

It is you disobeying the lock down order

Carrying us to travel between places

Allowing us to gain entrance to new territories

I do not plot to invade you

We are brainless with no capability to invent

Artillery to attack you

It is eon’s evolution bestows us with a key

Which incidentally opens the doors of

Homo sapiens cells for us to enter

I do not intend to kill you

We'd rather parasitize you peacefully

It is your immune systems overreacting

and suffocating yourselves

Atop the intelligence hierarchy in biosphere

You human will conquer us eventually

Nevertheless Nature is supreme

Abiding by its rules

New viruses are constantly in the making

One day we will have another comeback

In yet unknown shocking way

By Shih-Fang Wang

From: United States