Dragonfly: You Win

Humans have skeleton inside
But your bone structure is outside
Our soft tissue is much exposed
But yours is all tightly enclosed
Our skin loses our body heat
But your thick shell does insulate
We struggle with the climate change
But to you it is nothing strange
We eat stuff that has long been dead
But you eat living things instead
Our flying uses combustion
But your wings use respiration

Now I mull over all of this
You have it right and us amiss
The fossil record shows it clear
For three hundred million year
You did adapt not disappear
But we humans are nowhere near
Our species on the edge we fear
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Allison Avatar
November 26, 2020 at 11:38 AM
very informative poem Tony, they are amazing insects that's part of the reason i chose one for my avatar:-) hugs Jan xx
Hargreaves Avatar
November 29, 2020 at 11:48 PM
Thanks Jan. Yes, dragonflies will be here when we have gone. All the best. Tony x
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