WATCHING SHEIKH RASHID ROAD

We march like ants, regimented

On wheels for legs

Foraging, in serial order,

following digital crumbs

We march like ants, industrious

Stuffing shopping carts

From start till end of day

with humanity's meagre pickings

We march like ants, laborious

Leaving homes in foreign lands

to build homes of steel in sand

Braving all oppression

We march like ants, duty-bound

Life's clock ticking faster 

Hoarding for unseen winter

Until swallowed by twilight