The Ants' Kindnesses

I will not crush this ant before me.
He is part of me,
he is my brother, see,
we are both energy.

But . . . 

there is no denying
that if I slept,
too long and
too soundly,
that ant and his family
would surely devour me.


"The Ants' Kindnesses" Copyright © 2014 by D. Wickliff