At War with the Garden

the garden next door
is now off limits to you

among its life
proliferates
l'il things

a minute microcosm
counted in the exponential millions

their foregoers lived in kinship
with your ancient ancestors and mine

we've evolved together
found symbioses
and
a way to shut
an overrun, overstayed
garden party down

balance and change
is in everyone's interest

eons and epochs
gave us the ages
to hone cooperation
social intelligence
beef up the bouncers

once you were a David
on the scale of Goliath

you've become stunted
small and afeard
too frail for the little things
to depend on your protection
and the space to be

in your frailty
you have declared war
with the garden itself