On Being Bitten By An Insect Poem by Francis Duggan

I did not even feel it when it stung me
It must have been as I slept or early today
But it left a red and sore lump where it bit me
Perhaps for my sins in karma I now pay.

Some say to me I should go to a doctor
But I will not die this time I do feel sure
No greater healer than herself Mother Nature
Most stings and bites she always seem to cure.

In a few days the swelling will have vanished
This time I feel that I will be okay
Nature will heal the poison of insect that did bite me
I will not die of insect bite today.

I was bitten by a mosquito or spider
But no need for a doctor not this time
It was a thing of Nature that did bite me
Doing what comes natural and that's not a crime.