Enraptured

A microbiologist by design

Studier of the smallest organisms

The bacteria, the amoeba, the viruses

I admired your delicacy

Your intricacy

Your ability to change and

Evade defenses

To become something different

Something more

With each reproductive cycle

Until all the weapons

In our medical arsenal

Were unable to stop you

Wherever you'd go

You'd think that now,

Infected as I am

That I would rage and scream

And despise your very existence

But it is quite the contrary

Even as you kill me

You are still

So beautiful to me

Our relationship

But a microcosm

Of the forces of nature

Constantly at work

#deadlybeauty #poetry #challenge