Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Dead Bees

 

Photo © 2023 Jennifer Wagner

All your belittlements

have fallen at my feet

 

like dead bees.

 

They stung

and left me mumbling incoherently,

stumbling toward water.

 

But, I’m still standing.

 

And they are now

what they always were:

fertilizer

 

for my next

most magnificent

bloom.

 

 

© 2023 Jennifer Wagner

 

4 comments:

Janet Martin said...

This poem is so tender and powerful!! I guess we all have 'dead bees' don't we? better to let them fall than continue to re-live the sting with the result being an unfeeling scar tissue- bound heart!

Rajesh said...

Ouch!!! This one does have a powerful sting! ;)

Diego said...

Amazing as usual…. So very excited that you’re posting again. Praying for dead Wasps as well!

colleen said...

Yay! Love how you turned it around. Bees make honey but can also sting.