Fleas have a certain authority about them
They won't leave you be-
They **** and they ****,
until you start to bleed.

Once invaded; Almost impossible
to have exterminated.
They come back, crawling upon
your doorstep.
Questions come to mind-
Why must you keep coming
back?

You've bled us dry- There
once was everything.
Now life suffers such
terrible lack.

Persnickety little pests
they terrorize your entire
life.

Take back what's yours-
Don't let the fleas eat
you alive.
2014 Christina Jackson