Space Is a Jungle

A jungle can be massively big and so deep And possibly full of creatures that we'll never see Likewise trillions of ants claim the biomass throne Over two hundred species on any one tree alone A fascinating insect by engineer and design If it had intellect its brain may be as brilliant as mine The chances of ants in a jungle to see us are very slim Unless we explore nature and go looking them Although most of us in the real world don't really care We have Discovery Channels and we know that they are there But we just live our lives and let nature take its coarse An insects life can be really boring when you compare it to yours But turn the tables around and lets talk about earth In the middle of this jungle we call a vast universe How arrogant of a species to think we're all alone When we have identified other planets that we could call home So something light years away is a species far more advanced And to them our world is just a tree of different kinds of ants Nothing for them to bother with, we have nothing they want But like National Geographic from a distance they watch Or maybe they are just waiting for us to mature as a race A primitive planet in the jungles of outer space *JJF* 4/24/2013