AMBULENT PLANTS

Ambulant plant life
Plants that move and even hunt,
Once this planet had
Small, primitive animals,
Now only plants exist here.

Mammals, reptiles, bugs
Even tiny dinosaurs
Once roamed and hunted,
Now they’re yellow skeletons
That the plants still feed upon.

Animals were fast
But nowhere near as rapid
As ambulant plants,
So plants hunted and feasted
Till the animals were gone.

Shooting out tendrils
Vines that sap vital fluids
From the animals,
The plants hunted squealing beasts
Terrified by moving plants.

Shrieking, bleating beasts
Futilely tried to outrun
The ambulant plants,
But soon the race was finished
Animals were defeated.

So flesh-eating plants
Began to eat each other
To manage to live,
After the last animals
Had been eliminated.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia