A Bacterial Story

Surveying with his prying eyes,
He heaves his cell out of his den.
With his protoplast he flies,
Charged up nextgen antigen!

"Farewell nose my trusted place"
He thinks as he leaves his abode.
"Come on guys, another death race"
He yells as he leads from the fore!

He bristles vibrissae aside,
Breaking the first line of defence;
"Ah! We've done it!", he yells with pride
"Hah! Is this all human's cadence?"

Down the trachea he passes,
Just one more job now left to do.
Now the carina he crosses,
In a jiffy the bronchus too.

Here hurry the macrophages,
Him do they try to endocytose;
With immaculate ease he dodges
And taunts and tirades, all verbose.

He lets go his deadly toxins,
"Now I kill you, haroo haroo!"
He abruptly sees little things
That cling to him out of the blue.

"I won't swell up, keep on dreaming"
He scoffs at the antibodies.
He sees the lymphocyte now smiling
It tells him he is so fool hardy.

He swells up all to his dismay,
And tries to close all his pores.
"Leave me, leave me" he begs and prays,
Struggling to lock all his doors.

"You knew not of the memory
Your brethren left us when they came;
To deal with your trickery
Is in our genes now ingrained!"

"You have got me, my friends you won't!"
"Ah! Look but behind to know"
He sees them trapped and gagged and bound
And then receives his final blow.

Reviews

[Aethereal]

This is a very creative poem about the human immune system. I enjoyed how your personified the germ. It inspired me to write this gift poem for you which you may do with as you please:

Germ

A cute little germ
made of protoplast
curvy flat and firm
finds a home at last
deep within a worm,
where she holds on fast
riding every squirm
as he crawls on past
every hill and berm.

[LittleMadGirl]

Ha .. that made me smile .. you have so original ideas
Sometimes the poem sound a bit choppy, especially in the second stanza, but the content coulN#t be brought to us better ..