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“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.”

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 9/28/2019 2:24:00 AM

Leanne, this made me happy as I read her."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" - I have no idea how I was relating to this on a soul level. I knew I loved it though.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/28/2019 2:39:00 AM

Thank you Caren. If I am meant to be anywhere of significance in my life at present, it is in the presence of "true" writers and creatives, who do not embrace the word "safe" or "normal", who take risks to deliver what they are meant to deliver. You are one of those. x

James Swartz

Date: 9/28/2019 12:43:00 AM

This is good stuff Leanne. Good for the Queen to banish this man in a box and move on while not forgetting what he has done. She is in control now!

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/28/2019 2:44:00 AM

I have always been in control James. Thank you for your friendship , which is highly valued and treasured. Your writing is unique and lateral. I liken it to a puzzle that requires a person to use their intelligence to forensically translate each word, each line and the beauty is, each time read, the reader is ecstactically surprised to discover an alternate or further meaning. Dark is good.