Viral Pandemic

It lurks, an unsuspected menace
patiently awaiting opportunity
for it is a rapacious threat
its endurance and communicability
a fearsome feat of nature's strange
endowments to her creatures
minuscule and gargantuan
harmless and endowed with an
appetite to consume other life
forms realizing its dedicated
existence. From its original host
patiently waiting ... waiting ...
then striking and striking again
and yet again its unqualified
malevolence striking terror into
the minds of observers whose
medical training informs them of
its potential as a real and present
risk to survival of its hapless
victims, sending the clarion call
of enhanced vigilance and urgent
calls to isolate and examine its very
nature the better to arm themselves
with a discovery capable of disarming
the beast's intention of calamitous
global destruction of humanity.