Sol 6

  1. Is this the germ of the epidemic?

    May you cease to be, O enemy of the intestines!

  2. Imagination pictured you as a keen-edged weapon,

    not as a creature coming and going.

  3. In my thoughts you were

    more fearsome than you are now under the microscope.

  4. The people's physician decided to magnify

    your body so we could see it; then it seemed small.

  5. Does anyone see you as anything but an insect,

    weak, abased, and despised?

  6. How many young locusts has he destroyed and trampled,

    like you, fearing no struggle with them?

  7. I fear for whoever nurtured you;

    my heart trembles for him because of you.

  8. Even if he gave you water or fed you lovingly,

    humankind would not be safe from your assault.

  9. How much more so when he seeks to destroy you

    through research, and the illness you cause through medicine?

  10. May God guide him to what is useful,

    blessing his praiseworthy endeavor.

Sol 6