As a trained microbiologist myself, I can only comment you @ugonma for this beautiful piece.

Many see microbes as enemies, I do not blame such people as such, the part people tend to see are the harmful effects of pathogenic, opportunistic and spoilage microorganisms! But there's more to microorganisms than that.

Without microorganisms, life as we know it today will be impossible.

Let me give one more simple examples:
I. Without microorganisms, digestion would be impossible.

In other ways, there would be no wine, a very important class of beverages. Fermentation, process that produces alcoholic beverages, is as a result of the activities of yeast, a microorganism.

Without microorganisms, when living thing die, there would be no decaying to return nutrients back to the geological cycle etc.