Ghost Bees
“Ghost Bees”
Inside damned to Hell
The Man walks free
Outside he discovers
what monsters are waiting
to ingest his brain cells
Like bees bury their youth in wax
In the centre surrounded by worker words
sings the ancient Queen
Waiting for prodigy to banish her
from broken rules, the new Bee claims her seat
Love’s throne and sceptre,
Supersedure
Honeycomb in the open carcass
of a Lion’s split and pillaged ribs
dripping tales of evil deeds done
He reaches in and scoops
out his bitter feast
The Man in a Box
Dead Man Walking
shuffles his feet home
down in a hole
Outside him
life is moving
Inside him, life has ceased
Inside the box he is placed
by the banished Queen
who has swallowed the key
Sinking to endless depths
inside her ocean of salty tears
death and treasure boxes locked
There lies lost time and
unopened dreams
Inside damned to Hell
The Man in the Box
Walks free, swarmed and stung
by all of her burning
Ghost Bees
riddled and leering
in a book of judges
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
“When, like the bee, tolling from every flower
The virtuous sweets,
Our thighs with wax, our mouths with honey pack’d,
We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees,
Are murd’red for our pains.”
“Man in a Box”, Alice in Chains
https://youtu.be/Opzq-hxYgfE
"Down in a Hole", Alice in Chains
https://youtu.be/gWUZHVT-qQY
Lyrics/Down in a Hole, Alice Chains
https://genius.com/Alice-in-chains-down-in-a-hole-lyrics
"Down in a hole and I don't care if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
Down in a hole and they've put all their stones in their place
I've eaten the Sun so my tongue
has been burned of the taste"
“Out of one who eats came something to eat;
out of the strong came something sweet.”
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2019
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