There Is A Connection Between You And The Beetle Poem by RIC BASTASA

there is a beetle
inside your tummy
it has been eating
the left side of you
and you wonder if
there is a connection
between you and the
beetle

when it bites you
you think about itself more
rather than you
wanting and decided to kill
it at once

but it knows its place
and has its reason when it
declares with a
challenge that
you cannot afford to accept

'when you kill me
be careful
you also kill yourself'

(it is
a stalemate)

to live for another day
you smile
and the beetle smiles
with you.