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Fervent Ventings of a Fellow Ant

You humans walk about with ease With no care nor mere concern Where every step could maim or kill And pilage upon return Whether consciously or unaware Your ignorance is noted Oblivious to basic laws of motion Where walking equates to floating You boast of sciences and their  order Superior to all that lives then! Yet upon much closers inspection You thieve progress from our nests What you do not know is undiscovered As If it was always concealed in view But your vanity and arrogance Made what was plain seem undiscovered Education is the key THEY SAID And so observe wat more to learn We have no formal education Yet it is our knowledge that you yearn Our cities require no government Nor our storehouses a cooler Our population knows no census Yet all sleep  with full-cropped bellies Our currency of order requires neither rates nor  taxes Prepared for every season our larder is stocked by and far How sexist can we be when our monarch is always a Queen? Is not discrimination amongst ourselves what stunts unity and progression! Tiniest of all beings yet the most enthusiastic  workers About from the ascension of Our Lady till the chill that summoms phantism Our industriousness is favoured such as the work ethic we possess Watch, carefully observe, learn from us and you will prosper Imagine what we could do if we were you with all this knowledge We'd bring order to the world and calm to all chaos Maybe now you know to lose the botox that stiffens up your necks Look down more timeously and remember we too are beings

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Date: 4/25/2016 9:29:00 AM
Nice write Sizwe. Society has a lot to learn but I think humans and ants have more in common with each other than you think.
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Sizwe Hlabisa
Date: 4/25/2016 2:26:00 PM
Thanks James... we are more alike than we care to admit. Poetry should make all of us think deeper or else it loses sway
Date: 4/24/2016 1:47:00 PM
Cleverly expressed, Sizwe. We have a lot to learn from simple creatures like these; our life would be much better! ~ Regards // paul
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Sizwe Hlabisa
Date: 4/25/2016 2:23:00 PM
Thanks Paul... truer words have been spoken but not meaningful as these

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