Who Will Love The Wasp? Poem by Shane Dickie

Who will love the wasp?
Who will love the wasp, I ask?
Is it her aggressive nature,
The nasty bite she gives?
We feel justified, even vindicated in
Killing her, we as humans have licence
To kill; an assumed God-given right
After all we are only killing something
That is annoying - something we don't
Need Or do we? - indirectly - food for the
Birds in an invisible web of interconnectiveness
We kill the wasp but who is next... is our place
On the web that secure and when will it be our turn?
It is easy to love the lovable and is no challenge
But to love the unlovable is an act of the spirit