ant
there is almost nothing to see from up here.
↓light still reaches this far.
touch.
turn.
continue.
everybody seems to know where everybody else is going.
the smallest things are kept together.
seed.
husk.
leaf.
whatever can be carried.
deeper.
the sound changes before the light does.
not a throne.
just the place the whole colony keeps returning to.
above you: roots, stone, rain, footsteps.
down here: traffic.
from the surface
it still looks like a hole in the ground.