An ant is just an ant my son An impact it wont make But a million ants will move the world A conviction you won’t shake. An ant is still a living thing It eats, it breaths, it works It runs in an environment Where the hostile spider lurks. It works in regulation With a thousand brother ants To a strict cooperation That achieves communal stance. An intelligence is present, A timetable has been set This organized endeavor Makes it’s success an winning bet.
An ant makes love, it rears it’s young It grooms it’s brother’s hide. And if enraged an ant will fight A foe a thousand times it’s size. It’s glittering antennae And it’s shiny compound eye It’s economy of movement And compulsion to deny Involvement with any cause Apart from that one sent By the Queen Ant’s regulations At the Ant God’s monument.
I am moved with admiration For this tiny creatures heart, It’s commitment to community And resolve to set apart All individual aspiration And selfish action of it’s own. To gather condiments for nest and Queen Compelled forever more…to roam.