Ecological Events of Epic Proportions

As the day came brightly dawning, I stretched out, awakened, yawning;
dewdrops dipped beneath the awning — gleaming in the light of day.
Birdsong filled the air with singing, my head swooned – ears started ringing.
Breezes wafted, with them, bringing, scents of jasmine blown my way.
Why, then, did I feel dismay?

 
Nightmares seemed to cling and linger; crimson caked ‘neath ev'ry finger.
Bumblebees with bulbous stingers, filled the skies the bleakest black.
As I watched in awe and wonder, lightning flashed, sonorous thunder,
caused these hordes of bees to plunder, crawling deep in ev’ry crack.
Earth was now under attack…

 
Anthills rose, the size of mountains, spewing ants like fearsome fountains.
Pincered horrors, flowing, countless — covered everything in sight.
Had I known their dire intentions I’d have planned an intervention.
As of yet, I’ve failed to mention how my body quaked with fright.
 Plagues of nature — sinners' plight.

 
Frogs rained down from skies, now roiling, columns of foul flies came, soiling,
everything they touched, soon spoiling — blight rained down upon our world.
Fiery hail, the size of softballs, bludgeoned buildings, felled stout stone walls.
 God’s voice boomed above the storm’s squalls, “Mankind meets his end this day.”
Aberrations crept my way…

Just before those terrors reached me, I cried, “God, please, I beseech thee;
is there no more You can teach me to protect our tortured Earth?”
I awoke bathed in a cold sweat; dazed, confused – as horrors beset
all the land; had they not come yet? — All was well, or so it seemed.
 It was just some foolish dream.

 
I ran to an open window, sunlight glistened on the meadow,
lush, so green; world draped in shadow; dawn shed day's life-giving light.
I exhaled, a calming feeling, no more was my mind still reeling.
Up above me, on the ceiling, eyes looked down with hungered lust—
Spider venom in me, thrust… soon reduced my bones to dust.