A curtain of deadly tentacles
Roams the Indian Ocean.
Working together
Each holding on to their one job.
The greater good succeeds
The great individual.
As it grows and feeds down below,
We break apart on land.
We fragment.
We don’t think of the others.
We flutter as individual orbs,
High with self-importance.
The entity works in harmony,
And grows underwater.
Who will live to see the year 3000?
Who will live to see 2050?
Prompt 19, Hour 19
I like the way you contrast the cooperative nature of the siphonophore to human individualism. Beautifully expressed.