A/N: So, I found a picture of a cool looking flower. This somehow led to this less than happy-happy poem. I'm unsure of how this happened, but I'm contemplating the end and the lack of capitalization and periods. Feel free to tell me what you think on that, or any of it. Thanks for checking the poem out nonetheless.
Honey Queen
you are
the honey queen
covered in flowers
of pink and gold
and, perhaps,
soon bees, wasps, and all that hurts
will swarm,
but they will fly away as soon as you sink
to the bottom of
the lake
you are
the lake lady
sitting cross-
legged
on the silt and stone bottom
surrounded by shifting
water weeds and fish
the size of bird dogs
that you were told you could feed crackers to at the dock
and everything blurs in the murky
sable, your human eyes playing tricks,
and you don’t see the hand that grabs your russet hair
you are
the damsel of a fisherman,
kept captive by the dragon,
the white and red leviathan that
keeps you afloat--
the bass-smelling man
screams at your indolence
but you don’t care--
you could’ve survived at the bottom of the lake for all time,
longer than you could have survived the bees
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