I HATE YOU, MOSQUITO

by eva ndimara 




I don’t like you

I hate you – mosquito!

Year 1990 you killed our grandpa.

You, agent of death

You plunge deep and pull out

You collect the dudus*

From the infected –

You suck with your proboscis;

Then you inject the healthy

You transmit the killer dudus

Year 2000 you killed my cousin.

I hate you agent of death!

Carrier of dangerous dudus

You proceed to inject millions

Very indiscriminately

Very criminally

Year 2010 you killed my uncle.

Who says does not care

This careless decimator

Hunting us at mid-night and on

Flimsy in size but eating populations

Year 2017 you killed my nephew.

And your life-span?

A mere seven days!

But you kill millions –

Now overwhelmed by a flying insect;

Defeated by the proboscis!

Are we crazy – crazy we all?

Here are world bodies

The UN at the helm

Here are nations

With arms and ammunitions

Killing one another

But leaving the mass killer grinning!

I don’t like it – the mosquito

We must kill it for malaria to die

Get it from me:

Malaria and mosquito

Are one and the same

Kill the carrier; malaria will go!

Destroy malaria and here, and now

The mosquito’s impotent.

evandimara@gmail.com

*dudus: parasites