Ants

They're all shouting

Yelling

Screaming

"Give us our rights!"

"We deserve equality!"

The sun is beaming hot

Straight on their angry bodies

Beads of sweat trail down scrunched up faces

Past designer sunglasses

Finding rest on ears that do not listen

Signs bob up and down 

Across the waves of people

Buoys in an ocean of politics

Some find rest in shade

Others do not notice their own sweat

This is a war

Fought over who owns the most

And who can do the most legally

If you look into the distance

The far background

There are ants

Thousands of them

Scattered everywhere 

With no particular ant hill

They have no voices

Nor a representative

They own no signs

They have no interest in buoys

They are hungry

Who is there that leaves crumbs for an ant?

No one

They are cold

Who provides shelter for an ant?

Who gives an ant clothes?

An ant is an infestation

Bringing disease

Bad fortune

And condescending looks

With it

All of them

Are to be ignored

But they see things

They were there at the capital

They were there when

Ideas blossomed

People perished

In windstorms too great for

An ocean to resist

They saw people

Men 

Enter and leave offices

Carry important leather with important documents

Drive important cars

Eat important food

To nourish an important body

They look on hungrily

Drooling

Lust emanating from their eyes

Illuminating the entire scene

Filtering the world to look prettier

To care more

But the world does care

It is sitting on a hill

In an ocean

Lobbying for more

More

More

Of everything

While the ants are hungry

They cannot even lobby for themselves

For to do that

They must have a voice

To begin with

While rights are passed out to loud screamers

Free food samples

To please the potential customer

Silencing them for temporary peace

They were never hungry to begin with

The real hungry wander

Silent

Searching for an ant hill

With none to go to the Big Ant Hill

For them

Protesters leave pleased

Not happy

Content

"We will earn more tomorrow"

They say

"We deserve it"

They convince

Walking past

And stepping on

Ants