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Root decay

I stray away

My innards branching

Thread hyphae

A network formed

In body warm

Mycelia

Nutrients absorbed

Traveling through your bloodstream

I take my form invading slowly

Ectomycorrhizas

Fungal fusion, becoming one

Now we’re symbiotic

I mobilize to consume more

Spreading through the forest floor

I build my colony of spores

Weak and foible

Is the curiosity of men

Attention grasped in

My bioluminescence

Three thousand years

Awaited to manifest

My presence

Now that I am complete

Casting out the bodies

Overgrown rancid colonies