THE ANT HILL

The Ant Hill

My new friend Winnie understands my newly found gist!

Wildlife_ there is just something unique about them!

The humour, the pleasantry and the strength to face another day despite the dangers!

It’s quite fascinating and mind intriguing!

But I have discovered a new world!

The enormous world of insects_ and I seem to be stuck here!

Their kingdom is growing; and it’s already reigning!

The world of ants however caught me by storm,

Like a young toddler who just discovered the pleasure of crawling; and all they do is crawl all day,

They are powerful,

Yes the Ants!

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Those small insects that live in a social colony; proverbial for industriousness.

Their coordination and focus is enticing; one would wish to live in their cosmos for a day_ just to experience such cohesion,

Yet we've always drawn parallels from our world to theirs,

These past days…

I have been watching their stringy trails at the back of my father’s house,

How they clog themselves together tightly; like the life of one depends on the other,

How they follow their created paths so faithfully; with one emphasis to make it to their place of choice,

They have kept me thinking for a while…

It must be that the most blossoming projects globally are the ant- projects,

Their complex brilliant thoughts fuse into one to build the world’s most powerful colonies,

How they excavate their underground chambers into precision; complex designs that have triggered our designs and preferences,

They have informed our innovations…

And now the world’s architectural scientists draw brilliant schemes from the outcomes of their small but glued minds,

How their behaviours aid IT experts in solving computational problems_ talk of the ant colony optimization algorithms,

How their short scale rhythms arising from mechanical activation from physical contact have excited artists,

It simply unbelievable how much we've copied from them!

In such complex livelihoods they interact; different casts of the same species you will find,

Each designed for its role; yet yielding their strengths in diversity and differences,

Their enthusiastic small bodies always willing to perform devotedly,

The female workers_ with their sharp jaws they devour and bite through anything that can be food,

The soldiers_ strong and always on the lookout to protect and guard,

The Minima_ effectively turning leaves into fungus for food; they perfected agriculture long before us,

The queen_ how she holds the colony together by bringing forth a new age band just like a mother,

All dedicated to building a gigantic emperor, yet it comes at a cost,

 The conscientious female workers abandoning their queenly ambitions,

Selflessly supporting the only queen towards procreation,

Obeying the rules of the ecosystem; for cheating undermines the cohesiveness of their union,

As they fully inspect whoever violates this important law,

In one accord, the future of their genes flow through the queen,

Giving up their selfish desires to maintaining the colony,

Raising their fellow sister into family- hood and reproduction,

And for this, the colony reproduces as a whole; just like a tree casting its pollen into the wind,

How they mysteriously trust…

With no chain of command; yet so perfectly they perform their duties,

And through smell and touch, they share and measure what each of them does,

How they constantly brush through a chemical signal to communicate; yet neither of them has ever seen the other,

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How they build such powerful emperors…

Because with one genuine oneness and shared purpose, anything is achievable,

In unity the individual vanishes to form a strong super power,

With the power to literally conquer the globe and when they show up, everything else moves or its eaten way,

Their reproduction is a shared task…

Their powerful stings injects strong enzymes breaking down into liquidifying tissues,

The far distances they move; it’s like a city of people certainly packing up and relocating to a distant city on foot,

How they link legs into a chain as the fluid grows into solid cells around the queen, as they slowly move into the queen’s skin,

And right there a generation is created; one that follows the footsteps of its elders, into sustaining the gigantic monarch,

               

If we humans therefore have a problem with ants, it is a problem we have created,

Their societies are wide and known for efficiency and expansion, destined to dominate,

There unity is inexorable,

I finally have all the answers that I need…

I'm fully convinced that following my passion has more impact than ever before,

Ignited to face the world with an optimistic eye; and a stronger will to deliver,

Just like the ants!

Mwende