Deserve

fair weather or foul we still move about

like so many ants on a popsicle stick

we go to and fro, helter skelter

little sense in our movements

as they see us from above or below

what makes humankind special

that we count ourselves superior

than the four-leggeds or no leggeds

fish, fowl, bears and wolves and deer

all have life teeming through their veins

and all our relations count on us

to give them the respect they deserve