Sucle Away Poem by Sakib Choudhury

Latching on to me with all their teeth
Making sure I feel the pain
As they sucle away my blood

If I was to pull them off my body
It would still leave their mark
Branding me like a heifer

No foreseen way to make it unscathed
The damage will soon be done
Am doomed to lose my life force
To the parasites that hold me

alas there is nothing that can be done
For even they need me to survive
If I was to cut them off
They would surely be wiped out

This I cannot do with good conscience
For I do not want to be a killer
Annihilating living breathing creatures