Not necessarily sympathetically
watching
a wasp stuck in honey.
Insect limbs wave
not gesticulating 
just trying to be free.
A million a minute come lessons like these.
Beetles might scampers across a leaf
smooth and vivid
reaching the edge 
they simply scampers across the underside
grey and hairy.
My sort can't do the same
liable to fall into black holes
and taking special care avoiding webs
find strength not in numbers but in the spaces between.
That's right! Nothing less than telepathy 
could produce our diverse and pliable structures.
When we fly we all fly together
no graceful phenomenon sweeter
in all our salvaged New Eden.
And death by drowning in honey
is condemned as the lowest of the low.