Every night <br />Every day <br />All or nothing, not a play <br /> <br />Ever always <br />Tis the same <br />Battle, savage, quite insane. <br /> <br />Bloody talon <br />Flailing claw <br />Slashing tooth and snapping maw. <br /> <br />Mortal combat <br />Conflict all <br />Fight and live or lose and fall. <br /> <br />And atop the heap, <br />The human foot, <br />Moved by man, in hob nailed boot. <br /> <br />Crushing all <br />The weak, subdued <br />Lower creatures, merely food. <br /> <br />But worm, Oh Worm <br />Oh how he waits <br />On human flesh to satiate! <br /> <br />And finally, <br />When Man does fall, <br />Worm crowns himself the 'King Of All' <br /> <br />But high upon, <br />The flaming pyre, <br />Corpse and Worm meet Mister Fire <br /> <br />And so, quite so, <br />It shall not be, <br />Lowly Worm, no conqueror he!<br /><br />bob eichen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-conquered-worm/
