worm, a 2022 poem

Rather break my neck than squish you

Under my weight

Platform, Pedestal

My life over yours

Just this once

I promise to watch my stride

Vigilant to ensure you don’t dwell beneath

My sole, I stride lightly

So not to disturb your world

It be callous to concuss you

I can’t tell a body from a body

Which of you moves

Who has light - he who wriggles

Shines and prospers since the rain

I’d spend my life helping you

Eight hearts, no brains

My human complex knows you know nothing

If something sinister slayed me in my sleep

A wise man will tell me

A wise man once said that

A wise man knows he knows nothing