Earthlings

I AM A MAN

I’m here for years

I search for worth

I’m prone to loneliness

I trust in justice

I fight for rights

I make mistakes

I fear my peers

I am an earthling

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I AM AN ANT

I move in groups

I’m loyal to royals

My gift’s my lift

My work’s my worth

My task’s don’t ask

To strive is life

To live’s to give

I am an earthling

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I AM A HEN

I’m lover and mother

All babes have names

My feathers weather

But all lames are claimed

I yearn to learn

To know life’s woe

To feed and lead

I am an earthling

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I AM A WHALE

I roam the ocean

My blood’s my hub

From births to burials

I love and’ve loved

Eyes on horizon

I’ve waked in wakes

I’ve earned Earth’s mercy

I am an earthling

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I AM A MICROBE

I am killed by billions

Yet own the globe

My kind’s a hive

But each is brief

I’ve friends unending

Yet fight for life

To live’s a privilege

I am an earthling

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I AM A PLANT

My death’s life’s breath

My family’s grand

The earth’s my turf

I’ll outspan man

I predate primates

My fight’s for light

I furl the world

We are all earthlings.