LAME ANT.......

In a colony of ants
there lived a lame ant
who could do no work
and when the other ants
worked he stole
their food.

The other ants in the colony
as one would expect
spent the day working;
and
on returning home
after the day was done
when they found their food missing
or half eaten
they all blamed the lame ant

Some ants did express an element of
doubt and pity
or pity and doubt
but when the wise ants whined
Who else so evil?
Who else so vile?...all
the ants surely agreed.

An outcast the lame ant became
and upon him the other ants
looked down with scorn;
they despised him for
what he was and doomed
him for what he did.

But the lame ant apparently
was not bothered for food kept on
being stolen in the colony
just as before

The wise ants who ate the most food by far
(and therefore had the most to loose)
were soon fed up and opined that the
lame ant must be banished.


Before long the lame ant was banished(i.e killed,
for the wise ants do not operate by the
connotation of words)
The female ants did have a
soft corner for the lame ant and
"a poor thing" they cried
but when the wise ants whined
Who else so evil?
Who else so vile?...all
the ants surely agreed.


But alas food went on being stolen just as before!!

At first the ants ignored ,’may be we ate a lot', they said,
‘you know how addictive those sugar cubes are, they can
make you forget a lot of things';
but they soon overcame that whim
and from then on whenever
food was stolen they
all blamed lame ant's ghost.

The young ants did utter the words
evidence and clue but
when the wise ants whined
Who else so evil?
Who else so vile?...all
the other ants surely agreed.
They seemed to understand why
it was the lame ant’s ghost indeed.

In contrast
form heaven or hell
the lame ant's ghost laughed
to see how in the end
they were all the same ant!