Invertebrates of the Kingdom

Varied species of the kingdom
Across our earthly home
From sponges to the octopus
Without a backbone

Laying small eggs
Or a centimetre long
Astounding invertebrates
There outer skin is strong

Upon an organism
There they choose to lay
Eggs for a food source
Paralyse their prey

As the insect grows
So rapidly within
A time of which to moult
Remove their outer skin

The expanding colony
Survival of the team
Young bees evolving
From a single queen

Shed their exoskeleton
Insect crawling out
Expansion of their wings
Body drying out

Beginning as larvae
From the eggs they hatch
Dramatic transformation
Metamorphosis match

Written by Geraldine Taylor ©