Whose Hunt Was It?

To them in the jail cell A challenge "In the middle of dark night Catch a mosquito alive With bare hand..keep holding It alive until checked At once you will be released Mind, no lights allowed" For ever they would be in jail Yesternight it came buzzing On my left..then right.. Then my nose..then on my face My hands swatted it not But my ears, then nose Then right on my face Then suddenly my legs swatted Lo, I covered The whole of myself Suffocating No insect found..fugitive.. Buzzing..fugitive..buzzing Like this tiny wingy foe In any part of the world And now, came again wingy foe Buzzing over the blanket I quietly flashed the torch Through the blanket I could see it Quietly my hand out to trap Held my breath..almost caught But lo, how it fled away I got up impatient Sleeplessly sleepy For the next day Unable to win Like them in the jail-