Cockroach

A creature of dirt and decay,
an impudent assault on the viscerally sterile,
a jolt from the glossy sheen of human artifice
into the twitching substance of raw and writhing life.
It claws and skitters into dark corners
of our fearfully constructed false reality
and clings to existence with haggard determination.
Fed on filth, bred in wet crevices;
a perfect embodiment of all we hate,
and all that we become regardless.