Growth of the Emergent Virus a Prototype More Lifeless

9 billion years is nothing if not but a beginning For the virus is in disguise Not quite alive, almost life, a prototype Lives in a mask, a husk, inanimate, parasitic Growth of the emergent proto life forged in the void Viruses can not live on their own A host is necessary in empty places Even is the depths of outer space Bacteria swim in colonies of millions Stream as one cell organisms Disease is a way to get attention They live. Some are infectious The virus kills but not on purpose Some protect us from ourselves A shell of what could have been If they were something else in this existence