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 ©