Home Invasion

Curiosity surely impelled the tiny
creature to explore an earthen
pathway unfamiliar and doubtless
intriguing, and through it, gained
access to a parallel world entirely
alien, confusing and bitterly
adverse to the chipmunk's natural
longevity. In this universe no
green grass grew nor were 
edible seeds and nuts hanging
from approachable flora as 
nature's fauna have become
accustomed to experiencing. 
Instead there lurked two ferociously
predatory beasts who viewed the
timidly adventurous interloper
as prey to amuse them in their
leisurely trounces. Escape into a
welcoming soil passageway? Swiftly
leap and clamber a tree? Enter the
salvation of a welcoming cavity?
Nowhere in this universe of 
unforgiving surfaces so forbiddingly
averse to the familiar desperately
beckoned. And so, the prevailing
micro-pandemonium that ensued
held a stern, never to be repeated
lesson in caution, too late delivered.