Varied species of the kingdom

Across our earthly home

From sponges to the octopus

Without a backbone



Laying small eggs

Or a centimetre long

Astounding invertebrates

There outer skin is strong



Upon an organism

There they choose to lay

Eggs for a food source

Paralyse their prey



As the insect grows

So rapidly within

A time of which to moult

Remove their outer skin



The expanding colony

Survival of the team

Young bees evolving

From a single queen



Shed their exoskeleton

Insect crawling out

Expansion of their wings

Body drying out



Beginning as larvae

From the eggs they hatch

Dramatic transformation

Metamorphosis match



Written by Geraldine Taylor ©