When Elephants Rumble The Ants...

In his newspaper column, Peter wrote of the conflict on the island between Henry who works with the Governing party and the newspaper journalist Martindale, who writes for the paper that has demonstrated a slant against the ruling party.  Then I learnt of Peter’s concept of the elephants and the ants. Well, I know that like the Chinese believe, all large accomplishments and feat start with small steps. Remember, “Everyone knows an ant can’t!

 

When Elephants Rumble The Ants….

 

 

While it is true that size can be

Horrifying to small folk like me

Even cause us to tighten our lips

Never speak untimely or have verbal slips

Edgy that our slightest mishap

Lowers the might of the giants’ slap

Earth tremors to hurl us far away

Propel us to eternal damnation one day

How scary it is to walk on thin ice 

A life of submission and compromise

No opinions and making distance safe sanctuary

This is not living in harmony

So for fear of eradication one day

Rebels got together and now portray

Unity in numbers that can defeat

Muguffies, what ever size their stomp or feet  

Bajan politicians are the elephants and voters  ants

Like the army ants in the jungle, will scream their war chants

Encouraged in numbers they’ll attack anybody

They devour, defeat, destroy and disembody

How hard it must be for a giant who is on the trail

Ensnared by the lowly ant who screams his tale  

And gets the attention of the masses who quickly converge

Never denying the propensity to devastate, to satisfy their urge

This world has mixed advantages with unpredictable feat

Sometimes “When Elephants Rumble, The Ants meet

 

 

 


 

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