Bees
How much of a bee is an alien angel
a walk-in saviour?
Beloved, precious, mystical and
utterly irreplaceable.
Tread gently, with circumspection,
you calamitous man-thing
dandling madly on extinctions brink
as if there was no tomorrow -
or even that its another tool, means or allowance for further gambles
of self-aggrandizement, profit
or a usurping claim to exploit
and has no purpose beyond your stupid uses and abuse.
Holy books, teachings, folk-wisdoms
of every epoch, culture and tradition
celebrate and cherish bees
as sacred, mythical emmissiaries,
blessed beings.
Entire mythologies and secret occult practices
revolve around their sociological, metaphysical history and interactions with us…
…until we lose sight of, forget
and consider we are separate from and know better than Nature itself.
A bee is a treasured wayfarer
honoured, with no strings attached.
Its mission complementary and reciprocal to ours
- if we ever stop to listen, look:
get off our ecocidal bandwagon
and out of our panicy minds,
let go of the straws we clutch -
and re-find our forsaken hearts -
for heaven's sake!
Each tiny honeyed visitant
a messenger of grace, sweet wisdom and promise.
Its sting, a salutary reminder.
13/7/23