A Honey Bee

A honey bee
will leave fearlessly
because his life will end
if he must defend himself.
If I were to live
as fearlessly as a honey bee,
no tribulation would be the end of the world.

A honey bee will lose himself
 in every way.
I would lose myself in every fear,
in every thought, in every day.

A honey bee's defenses
 lie attached to his body.
My own significant defenses
 lie attached in nerves never ending.

If he stings me,
 his life
will be torn from him.
If I get stung,
 my life
will be torn from me.

In our own ways,
the sting will end us,
and we won't know
if it was worth the worry.

-LJ
25 April 2018