Writing Prompt #10 Write about something that God created and imagine what God would have said about it afterward

The Earthworm

I am saving a worm from the grip of a preschooler.

I tried.

I tried to save a worm from being stretched

And smushed

Sawed with a stick

Whipped around and around

And stuffed into a plastic container

With no way of escape.

Sand, dirt, and some leaves

Are left lovingly for the worm to eat.

When no one is looking

I shake the worm free

From its death trap.

I watch as it wriggles.

How is this worm still alive?

God says to the worm he just created:

You’re a plaything for children on playgrounds.

You’re a dinner for birds.

You will dry up on hot concrete and form tough dry

Letter C’s

Because you were too slow to crawl back to the grass

After the rainstorm.

And yet, you are responsible for the very

Ground we walk on.

“It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a

part in the history of the world, as have these lowly creatures.”

Charles Darwin 1881

~TC