A stink bug lives only 6–8 months.
I wonder if those 6–8 months
are like a human’s 60–90 years.
That is, if stink bugs even have
a sense of time passing.
They must have a sense of
their bodies aging
from the wreckage of
growing older.
What I’d like to know for sure
is where stink bugs go
when they die.
It’s easy to assume there’s
no afterlife for them,
just as it’s easy to assume
there’s an afterlife for humans,
but that’s all conjecture;
nobody knows for sure.
Silly as it may seem to you,
my hope is an afterlife
awaits not only insects
but all lifeforms.
Bob Boyd