Tuesday, December 19, 2017

An Ant



An Ant
Laijon Liu 20171219

- You live for the system -

You either a worker or a soldier
you don’t have other choice
this system and culture makes sure that
you crawl, you dig and you wrestle
like your life got nothing else meaningful

How often you wake up in the morning
you feel the headache, vanity and back pain?
Yet, you will never question yourself
why you do this? And why can’t you stop?
Because you are an ant, that simple.

Complex underground network tunnels
surround your sunless world and ideology
you’ve together designed and maintained
and every boulder you’ve pushed a marathon length
to extend your ant-kind colonies everywhere

Mighty you are, you march together
like cancer cells spilling out into blood stream
bring down elephants, river dams, and deforest
yet so fragile you are, the tiniest six-leg
insect in all animal kingdoms that eye can see

Chemistry programmed in your brain and body
that only serves basic function of survival
Your existence, and whatever you do
is Nothing but a number, a numbers game
number dominance over the living and the corpses.