Too frequent not to question, little bug.
Why do you seek refuge here?
My cold, candle lit room, in my dresser you hide away.
Upside down you crawl into your home.

My vitamins and mismatched socks your companions.

You’re coming out, flitting over to my bed, crawling on my blue blanket.
It’s not water.
It might as well be water to you.

Is my keeping you alive, keeping someome I love alive as consequential karma?

Does mercy apply to a creature so small?
Little bug, can you answer me?

Why do I wonder about these innocent occurrences?
Do they mean something more ?

You’re creeping closer and I’m curious, snapping pictures, recording you.


I can’t help but question the significance of you, of this.

This happens far too frequently for me not to question.

4 responses to “Little Bug”

  1. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    It wants to visit, hang around, catch a ride on you…
    take that spirit of yours to a secret place
    where other bugs meet,
    worship together in the flood of tiny, intimate things
    made precious by our knowing, our seeing.
    It’s a small negotiation with the world’s least known diplomat.
    It’s one of the most precious moments in the Universe,
    being noticed by the small eyes that even galaxies can weave.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Yes!!!!! Love this comment!!! Thank you John ! I hope you have a great Easter! :)awww you should’ve seen this little bug. He was a western conifer seed bug. He was so cute. I let him outside though after two days because he’d probably starve in my room awww:( I’m not going to lie. I cried when I put him outside, like hard. Haha

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  2. Woodsy Avatar
    Woodsy

    You have maybugs over there? Their longer name is cockchafer beetles… they are about the size of a bumblebee and have antennae that spread out like fans.
    We used to get a few of them at the old house. When one settled on my arm, it tended to want to stay there, perhaps wandering between my arm hairs every couple of minutes.
    I went for a walk down along the shore one evening with one nestled on my arm most of the way.

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    1. BrittnyLee Avatar
      BrittnyLee

      Awwww yeah we have those !!!!! I love those bugs. They’re adorable and neat looking. That’s cool that you had and encounter like that.

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