After seeing the flicks Bugs’ Life and Antz
I came to see you in a different light
I revered your solidity, oneness
I admired your orderliness
I regarded you as a force to reckon with
But
You’ve been pestering me for quite sometime now
I see your horde in my little eden
Mystified at what you’re at
Lining up and attacking my little plants
Why?
Much against my inner turmoil
I have to choose your bunch or my dear plants
And arrived at, my plants I’ve got to save
Gone was the reverence, admiration accorded to your species
You are killing my plants! Why?
By your mere presence? What?
I concluded and considered you now one or many of those pests
So there!
I sprayed and sprayed water to break your rank,
To dismantle built-up soil you made on my flower pots
And wreaking havoc to my plants.
With a heavy heart, no let up on the spraying
Until the last of your soldiers cascaded down
with the water, dizzy (perhaps), dead or whatever
No regrets tho that I killed a platoon.
My oh my