A Slug Met A Giant Poem by Ray Lucero

A Slug Met A Giant



I walked up our driveway,
To post a letter to Aunt May
I saw a slug moving slowly,
A path of slime along its way

How small it looked to me
With a body naked, soft 'n fragile
I could squash this tiny refugee,
Slugs are neither quick or agile

To the slug I was a looming giant
Ten thousand times its puny size
Yet it moved along ever defiant,
Caring not I might be its demise

Did it know I would not harm or kill?
Violence was not for one like me to do?
A long slug's life it might yet fulfill?
Lest it meet the bottom of my shoe?

That day a life was mine to spare;
Mercy mine to give!
I understood a simple truth (though rare)
'Live and let live'

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: rhyme
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Brandon Lucero 28 July 2015

Sick, clarity and peace in our time.

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Brandon Lucero 28 July 2015

Sick. Clarity and peace in our time.

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