Family and Friends,
Please enjoy this poem I wrote about ants in Haiti. Elizabeth and I (Cory) were observing them in action yesterday, and recently they have been trying to take over the mission house and the orphanage. It gets pretty frustrating, so all you can do is fight back and try to laugh about it. I guess it is better than five feet of snow out in the yard!
"We Have a Billion Ants Out in Our Yard"
They're mentioned in the Testament of Old
They're spoken of with only high regard
They work so hard and always are so bold
We have a billion ants out in our yard
The bugs all suffer from their vicious wrath
They conquer, gather, eat, and then discard
We wonder if we're next; we've done the math
We have a billion ants out in our yard
They come in through the drain under our sink
They sneak in where the screen door has been marred
They enter chasing smells of rot and stink
We have a billion ants out in our yard
Sometimes we almost give up fighting back
Sometimes we think the battle is too hard
Sometimes we fear the final big attack
We have a billion ants out in our yard
Our only hope is never spilling food
To keep the jelly sealed tight in the jar
We will prevail against the hungry brood
We'll keep those billion ants out in the yard
We have a billion flakes in our yard
ReplyDeleteThey are cold and white
With the wind they like to fight
Now we have a billion and ten flakes in our yard