The ant is a very powerful insect as it can move ten times it's own bodyweight and has the ability to create huge underground cities and colonies.
Most ants, have their own special ability and are ruled by the Queen ant, similar to bees, they all have ranks and they also have their own special duties, the worker ants will excavate and build little catacombs forming them into little grottos
The ants live and store food in their large cities of earth connected by a network of large tunnels created by the workers. The soldier ants are there to guard the Queen along with the other ants from predators, The Queen's protection remains paramount and the other ants are her loyal subjects of the large empire she has built.
In the lower tunnel a large obstruction is blocking the path of a storage warehouse being built. a large group of reinforcements are called in to move the large stone, they all pull at the blocked section, with their powerful mandible claws they finally remove their obstruction.
The Ant, is so much like mankind, as they build cities and are the only other species that wage war on each other, and are capable of warring with other ant colonies, there is a strong connection between the two species, but all this does not stop these amazing creatures to evolve into the future.
Who knows one day these ants may even become a more powerful force than man himself, no one can predict the future of the human race as the ants evolve into higher life forms, it may well end up becoming the empire of the ants.
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Posted: Mar 2015
About this poem:
Another nature poem which I wrote on the 25th December 2013, many say that ants are like humans because they are the only other species that make war on each other, create underground cities and can become strong to keep law and order in their society.