I Killed a Grasshopper

An insolent grasshopper
flew into the embrace
of my bare room,
lost,
frightened
and chirpy!

         You invaded my peace, man!
         Your wings my executioner’s sword!
         Your fangs my grave digger’s pride!

I struck at it, the hopper,
It lay at my feet
shocked,
unmoving
except for the twitching
of uncomprehending antennae.

         I stared at your stupor,
         amazed,
         sharing in your shock!

Suddenly
it sprang into life,
on the floor!
crying to me
for mercy that I cannot give,
for life that I do not have!
Then it went into a shadow
and died,
the grasshopper, it died!

         My kindred,
         I have killed you!
         My kinsbeing,
         You have killed me
         by dying such an agonising death!

         For my peace,
         I shall bury you!
         You shall not satisfy
         the grizzly hunger
         of some shameless lazy lizard!