(Image Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock -- Photo of ants swarming pink cake)
Ants
Ants
meticulous workaholic
honest ants!
Going on your way
dedicated to the job at hand.
How you smell and follow
the one going ahead!
Your tiny venomous fangs
used to carry and amass.
Your fangs
they are capable of much more
than that.
But you are content.
Going your way.
Even if I disturb
your plans for life.
Even if I spill water
by your way.
Yes I can do that.
And now many of your friends
Spilled away in water
drowned and collapsed.
Leaving the task at hand
undone.
Will they be forgotten too?
Oh look! Again you came
and made your way.
Avoiding the scene of death
you are on your way again.
Whispering to one another,
smelling the one going ahead.
What task do you accomplish thus?
Amassing food, mating
Producing more ants!
You could bite me with those little fangs.
And make me scarlet all over.
Ill and scarlet
so I would not spill water on your plans again.
But you choose to go on your way.
And your friends
they died not a moment ago!
Shame on you
Ants!