Don’t step on the ants please,

Let them go about with ease.

Don’t they have a right to live?

We can’t take what we didn’t give.

 Think before you plant your big feet:

To survive ants too have to eat.

May be someone at home was sick,

That’s why this ant here came to pick

A few grains. May be its family

Waits for it. Now don’t scorn me!

Ants normally live in groups.

Haven’t you heard of Solomon’s troupes

Turning back their way to let an ant-hill

Stand in its place, with its fill?

I agree that ant bites sting-

But you forgot this important thing:

It bites to stay alive

It fights hard to survive.

 So don’t step on an ant.

It too has a right on land.

May be it does not have a wife

But it has life.

14 July 2011